Getting at their own citizens too!
Don't worry Martin 1234, it is not just the Europeans that are getting checked out......in the US now, due to the TSA ruling, all US citizens have to provide proof of citizenship before renting/training.
US Pilots are not too happy with the situation either. One pilot came in today, when asked for a copy of his birth certificate/passport told me that he would go back to another airfield 10 miles away that did not require this information! I then suggested to him that shooting the school trying to do it right and going to a school that does not really makes the whole system even worse.
In hindsight, as long as we all do what we need to now I feel that APOA will soon weigh in with a simpler solution in the (hopefully) not too distance future.