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Old 17th Dec 2005, 18:53
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Having the right license is always the issue with flying Russian built equipment so there are possibly not too many freelance Mil drivers out there. If the machine is on the RA register a western pilot will not be able to fly it as Putin declared that only Russians will be issued with Russian licenses so trying with Skytech might be a lost cause, Juan. The Skytech fella obviously being Russian has Russian and FAA licenses.

There are other possibilities but then a pilot will be restricted to flying the machines registered to that country e.g. Bulgaria, Moldova etc and even then they will need to have an operator sponsor a license for them and there are not too many of those around.
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