I recently had an opportunity to go on a club flyout to Ostend. Unfortunately I did not check my passport until a couple of weeks before the event and when I did I found that it had expired!
While I applied for a new one immediately, it did not (hardly surprisingly) turn up in time for the trip. This led me to do some further investigations and as far as I can see, for travel within the EU by an EU citizen it is only necessary to have an EU approved official form of identity, not necessarily an actual passport. As I have a current UK photo-id driving licence (one of the official valid forms of ID) this should in theory be acceptable. Has anybody here
actually travelled using alternative ID (especially via GA), and if so how did you get on? The GENDEC form only refers to passport numbers as ID and when I phoned AOPA for their opinion they weren't sure either way. A check of the Belgium Embassy website clearly states that a passport is required for entry- surely this cannot be be correct in the wonderful world of Europe
? Rather then cause any problems for the others on the trip I decided to miss out this time and put it down to experience.