sorry to confuse things further, but what if you're flying a French-reg plane?
Presumably then you get French JAR PPL priveleges, in the same way that a UK PPL with an FAA IR can fly full IFR (including incontrolled airspace) in an N-reg plane...
Anyone know about this? - I may be hiring a plane in France next year, (I have PPL/IMC), so being able to go on top of cloud, as I can here, would be great.