Scooter Boy
"If this potential catastrophe for practical IFR in europe ever did come to pass then as the owner of an N-reg aircraft you have the largest GA market in the world (USA) to sell it back into."
Yes sure you do, by which time you have paid for transportation from and to USA, and paid the chancellor VAT (ok you may be able to avoid some of that if you're smart). So unless you are talking about an expensive aircraft, the costs involved are a fair whack of the purchase/sale proceeds.
The easy way is to wait a few months.
I certainly hope the EASA is full of sh1t, but knowing euro-enthusiasm for regulations, you can never be sure. GA is such a soft target that their climbdown from total governance of the euro skies could be to just hit GA.
Call me a pessimist.