European drone flying

[Nobbynomad]

Hi there folks, I hope to pick your brains if you don’t mind. I’m a fairly newly qualified drone flyer/operator having my flyer id and operator id for the UK. It’s my intention to also fly in Europe but I’m getting bogged down trying to find out how or where to take the test. I’m an old guy (68) so learning does not come easy to me now. Is there anyone who could help me find out how to qualify for European operations. I would even pay for one to one tuition. Thank you in advance… Nobby

[clinkadink]

Hi @Nobbynomad, it looks as though you’re quite new here

Why not nip over to the Introductions page, and say hello properly and tell us a bit about yourself.

As for flying in Europe, please see link below.

Flying in the EU

If you are going to fly in the EU you need a registration from an EU country which is then valid all over the EU. (If we had stayed in EASA then the UK one would have been OK) This link is for a training company in Luxembourg who will provide this free of charge (currently). It’s all free and in English. A bit more involved than our test but very straightforward. On passing the test you get a certificate from the Luxembourg Civil Aviation Authority which is good for all of the EU for A1and A3 …

[Nobbynomad]

Thanks for the rapid reply, I couldn’t find the link to the Luxembourg training facility, could you please give me a name.

[clinkadink]

Foire Aux Questions

[BudgieUK]

This is the site I used.

In English and free (and relatively straightforward)

https://learningzone.eurocontrol.int/ilp/pages/description.jsf#/users/@self/catalogues/8264768/courses/20790571/description

[Nobbynomad]

Thank you BudgieUK I’ll take a peek tomorrow. I’m all droned out at the moment.

[marinemavic]

Thanks for posting this. I promptly logged in there and did the A1-A3 course, all very straightforward and I now have my certificate. Hoping to get some stills photography done in Belgium and the Netherlands this summer.
One daft query. The coure talked about the term ‘Operator ID’ which we are all familiar with, but the ID shown on the certificate, starting ‘LUX’, is shown as a ‘registration number’. I presume that is indeed the EU Operator ID that I need to show on my drone?

[Edison]

@marinemavic

One daft query. The coure talked about the term ‘Operator ID’ which we are all familiar with, but the ID shown on the certificate, starting ‘LUX’, is shown as a ‘registration number’. I presume that is indeed the EU Operator ID that I need to show on my drone?

If you mean the certificate for A1-A3, no, that is your flyer ID.

[marinemavic]

OK thanks for clarifying that.
I had a grope around the site and deduced I needed to contact the Lux equivalent of the CAA, so I’ve emailed them. Presume there isn’t a quicker way?!

[Edison]

@marinemavic

OK thanks for clarifying that.
I had a grope around the site and deduced I needed to contact the Lux equivalent of the CAA, so I’ve emailed them. Presume there isn’t a quicker way?!

I don’t know, I did mine via the Cyprus CAA.

[Harbrimar]

The operator’s registration number, is made up of a 3-character code representing the country and 13 alphanumeric characters. If this is what you have, it is the number that should be stuck to your UAV

[Thisaintthesaint]

Hi, sorry for being so late to the party. I was searching for this subject and found this discussion, albeit from 9 months ago.
I was under the impression that if you took your A1 - A3 certification in a particular country in Europe, you had to visit that country first. Is that not the case, or do they just turn a blind eye to it? Or (more than likely) I got it completely wrong and got the wrong end of the stick.

Steve

[Pirbright_Drone]

I have started looking at this for my summer holiday to Italy. I thought all I needed was to register with EASA and maybe get insurance. I have to say, going online just presents me with absolute information overload, and the site is not brilliantly written either. I have managed to get through a load of menus and selected Italy hyperlinks around restrictions and requirements, but I then get taken to D Flight which appears to be a 3rd party application - and if the original information was correct I don’t need to get involved with that.

I am looking to simply register with EASA at the moment (not found the link yet) but much of what is linked in the main site takes you to pages that have been removed. The link I am using is below:

Flying in your country - National Aviation Authorities | EASA

[Pirbright_Drone]

I now have D Flight sorted - it is asking me to register my drone on there, so if I do that have I complied with EU registration or is this different as it is really unclear. The EASA site above says I need to register with them, but the link they provide for Italy is D Flight.