4. Fly a foreign registered plane in UK. (e.g. while those US N-reg planes are still allowed to be based on our shores.)
In principle, no. If you want to fly a foreign registered plane, the principle is that you need a license that's issued by that foreign country. But there are two major exceptions:
- Within the JAA member states (and soon to be EASA) you can essentially fly any plane registration on any licence, subject to type/class rating limitations. (Obviously there's a few exceptions.)
- The US allows flight of someone registered in another country, to fly an N-reg on the license of that country. But this is a US-specific exception. Not all countries do this.
5. Fly a foreign registered plane abroad. For example, the US based touring holidays that we see written up. Could also include hiring in New Zealand or many other countries.
Actually, no. Your PPL does not give you that privilege. What it does give you is a document that the foreign country can look at and (sometimes together with a separate letter from the CAA) "validate" as being acceptable for flight in their aircraft. This validation can be implicit (like the UK validating any ICAO PPL for flight on a G-reg) or explicit (like the US issuing a "piggyback" PPL).
But your PPL *in itself* does not give you those privileges.