It was an interesting letter from a reader in latest FLYER about South Africa. A lot of red tape and quite a lot of theory with a compulsary theory test. He had have his conversion done on an earlier SA trip, but it expired after 3 months and he had to go through the procedure from scratch.
I'm Swedish and would like to fly in Sweden twice a year or something. This is obviously not a problem with a JAA-PPL. The problem I found with the clubs I talked to was that they did not cater for that situation and I would have to pay a full years member fee to the club and the mother organisation. On top of that, an extra charge since I will not be around helping out with tasks in the club etc. Anyway, this is a bit unrelated to the thread.