{"id":103,"date":"2014-06-30T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flyfiesch.co.nf\/?page_id=103"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:59:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:59:01","slug":"foreign-licences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.flyfiesch.com\/?page_id=103","title":{"rendered":"Foreign licences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shv-fsvl.ch\/en\/education\/foreign-licence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">information on the SHV website<\/a>, pilots who are not resident in Switzerland are allowed to fly here if they hold a IPPI Card of level 4 or 5.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fai.org\/page\/civl-ippi-SUI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The relevant section of the FAI website <\/a>states that level 5\u00a0is required\u00a0to fly cross country.\u00a0 All pilots must have third party insurance cover of at least CHF 1,000,000.\u00a0 Documentation must be carried with you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The SHV website also states that non-commercial occasional tandem flights are allowed, if you have a valid foreign tandem licence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Foreign pilots may acquire a limited SHV membership to enable access to Swiss meteo and airspace information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the time of writing (April 2026) it has just come to my attention that the requirement for all aircaft in Switzerland (including paragliders and hang gliders) to display a number has recently started to be applied to non-residents.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shv-fsvl.ch\/verband\/alle-news\/news\/?tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&amp;tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&amp;tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=2644&amp;cHash=ec10beec5ae0347395b600d8e3487641\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This page on the SHV website<\/a> has details (though not in English!) and the text &#8220;Identification markings on the glider are not compulsory&#8221; which used to appear on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shv-fsvl.ch\/en\/education\/foreign-licence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Foreign Licence<\/a> page has been removed.\u00a0 I&#8217;m uncertain how likely it is that the lack of a number would lead to trouble and hoping that the situation will become clearer soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More definitive information may be accessed via the links above.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to information on the SHV website, pilots who are not resident in Switzerland are allowed to fly here if they hold a IPPI Card of level 4 or 5.\u00a0 The relevant section of the FAI website states that level &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flyfiesch.com\/?page_id=103\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104,"parent":26,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfiesch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfiesch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfiesch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfiesch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfiesch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfiesch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4189,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfiesch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions\/4189"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfiesch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfiesch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyfiesch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}