Originally Posted by
Gordomac
Not up to date but it used to be dead simple. Wherever the aircraft was registered , you needed that country's licence to fly it.
Licencing is standards. Once you have your PPL, CPL, SCPL, ATP etc, you are qualified to exercise the privilages of the licence.
Climb into anything with registration, you need that country's issuing licence to fly it anywhere..
In general still somewhat true. Just not within Europe. With any EASA license i can fly planes registered in any EASA member state. And yes, that does include some non-EU countries.
And countries, or regulatory entities in this case, can enforce additional rules even on foreign registered aircraft based in their area.
B2N2 made some good points.