Pilot Pete wrote:Now, that's confusing.
No it isnt.
Pilot Pete wrote:Scenario 2
France suspends Schengen.
I must depart France from a designated Immigration field, and comply if necessary with PNR. I can still land at a strip in Spain as they are still Shengen.
Then I must reverse this for the return journey.
No. You dont. You do what you have always done - file a flight plan.
If they want to see you they will pitch up and see you. Its not your business to tell them.
Its no different than when I take my play car to the pyrenees for kicks and cross the border on a little mountain road. If they want to stop me they will. They dont know Im taking the trip but they have the right to block the road and ask me for my passport etc as if it were a border outside Shengen. As I said above, some airports with many extra-Shengen flights have a banket-policy to inform customs/immigration of ALL foreign bound flights - eg Avignon referred to above last year, but that is an airport thing, not the law...
Last month the AF Copenhagen-CDG flight I was on was met by les Douanes and it was like the Spanish inquisition.... yet I have recently flown to/from France to Belgium to/from small aerodromes and no-one cares as long as you file, open, then close, your flight plan. (insert gallic shrug smiley)
So you can fly to/from any aerodrome in France/Italy without doing anything but filing a flight plan.
Regards, SD..
Its generally best to make a hole in the sky.......not the ground...