French Customs
One of our 'M' Reg aircraft had a very interesting Customs 'Ramp' Check yesterday in France. Customs showed up upon arrival and all they wanted was a copy of our Certificate of Commercial use and a the previous fuel tickets.
We were then told we were breaking the law as we had not paid tax on Fuel from Spain a week before. (That was obtained using the said Certificate without problem) After about 2 hours when they had read the back of the certificate in French regarding the EU Law and much shouting and threats they went away.
Anybody else had this much trouble in an 'M' Reg machine in France?
I to have had several occasions of the fueler saying they don't accept the certificate but nothing like this. We did't even ask for fuel this was over Fuel picked up in Spain a few days before.