Originally Posted by DFC
It all comes down to adequate supervision (other wise known as money!). If the FAA are happy to state that they at their own expense will provide adequate supervision of N reg operators based in Europe and FAA pilots in Europe then everyone is happy.
Adequate supervision or over regulation? Land of the Free or Nanny State?
Ask somebody who has to get his N-reg through an annual given by a mechanic who has his own ticket to consider, or get through a BFR given by a CFI who also has his ticket to protect. That's at the pilot's expense, not the FAA's. The FAA provides the framework for more than adequate supervision. Sure you can break the law but that's possible in CAA-lland as well. I also would suspect you are more likely to be ramp checked by the authorities in Europe if flying an N-reg than a G-reg, but that's a guess.