Originally Posted by
Duchess_Driver
Funny, I always thought it didn't matter where in the world I was operating, I was always bound by the laws of the state of licence issue AS WELL AS the state in which I was flying - whichever being more restrictive being applied.....
I've had my coworkers assure me not to worry about the local regulations overseas, if the company FCOM says eight hours bottle to throttle, don't worry if the local regs say twelve. I'm still not sure I buy that one (but hope I never get to test it in a court of law).
And sometimes the charges overseas follow you home, sometimes they don't.
A famous Air Transat A330 glider pilot did hard time in a Georgia prison for airborne drug smuggling a while back but he's still flying in the left seat there.
Similarly, a colleague of mine did hard time in Mexico for drug smuggling but since it wasn't a U.S. felony conviction, he's good to go with both his FAA ATP license and Class I medical certificate.