Sweden was very much like Canada - easy and large tracts of uncontrolled airspace - only about 3 or 4 areas to avoid - and they are well apart anyway......... forced landings are likely to be interesting - fields small and scrubby, lots of trees - the guy who checked me out said 'if you have to force land in the winter pick a lake and walk ashore - no issue, in the summer pick a lake and swim ashore - no issue - apparently April May is interesting though as you cant walk on the ice (it cracks) and you can't swim as the temp is usually in the minus numbers and the lakes are huge................definitely take a PLB and a LSJ.................' Amazing vz though and cloud base of above 5000' not uncommon on an average day.
France - great fun, large open spaces - superb local aerodromes usually with hangarage, 2000m of hard runway and no charges. Usually owned by the local council and paid for by EU subsidy to construct (why can't we do that ???) but avoid the Military aerodromes (lots of low level traffic) and the big cities as they usually have active airfields.......................with non-GA traffic. The regional cities have airports the size of Gatwick with 4 movements a day..........(like Norwich really !!
) - but good fun all the same
Belgium - small slow and narrow minded - with very little available airspace for playtime.
Go and enjoy !!
Arc
P.S. Anyone know what Germany, Poland or other bits of Eastern Europe are like (or Spain for that matter) ??