Emigrating to Thailand for Retirement - with your own aircraft
Had a chat with a distant family relative who looks to be about to do the typical western male thing.
Got the divorce, sold his business and assets and plans to move to Thailand permanently. Pattaya City looks the likely locale. He wants to take his plane with him - a turbine twin Kingair 200. Pattaya is embarking on a major airport redevelopment and seems a great place to base out of and explore SE Asia.
Questions -
would that have to go on the Thai register and get all thai licences or can he continue with N reg and FAA licences & ratings......medicals etc
How easy is it to fly between countries or overfly, in Asia (but not China) such as Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar etc for private purposes. There is a fair but of charter activity happening but searching the web has not revealed the ease or difficulty of purley personal GA ops. I'm talking here of a turbine twin in the flight levels as opposed to VFR in a 172.