I spoke with a Brit in 2010 after the SK worlds, he travels to Argentina every
year for a gliding holiday - Every time he said was an expensive exercise. Once
he said that he went to the extent of getting an empty Argentinian registered
trailer, with an Argentinian driver & car to drive North, w
Keep in mind Barnesy is very current, doing 500hrs a year at the moment & has
an extreme hunger for competing at the highest personal level - I think he'll
clean up regardless of what glider (in the respective class of course!) he
flies at the world champs.
Go team AUS,
WPP
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Hi;
Has anybody investigated the possibility of landing the aircraft in
Brazil or Uruguay and on shipping to Argentina - or even just driving it
across?
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012, Tim Shirley wrote:
> Hi Ron,
>
> As I understand it there have been significant problems with the costs
> and bureaucratic
Hi Garry
I would not dispute your eloquent analysis, my comment, at least in part,
was a tongue in cheek. That being said, he did win an Australian
competition in a glider that he had hardly any time in. It was of course a
much far better aircraft than PW5, despite the same national heritage. The
Paul,
Greetings.
Your comment might be true, but it is meaningless in the present context.
>From your statement I suspect that you have not flown a PW 5 for 100 hours or
>so, and probably not even for 1 hour.
We are talking quite different orders of (REDUCED), magnitude of performance
here com
>> So, as Tim has intimated, these are the reasons why Allan has changed
classes and will now be flying World Class - I hope; albeit at a huge
disadvantage to the rest of the field, given his inexperience in a PW 5.
Hmmm, the fact that he did not have too much time in LS8 does not seems to
be h
Hi Ron,
Have you made it to WA yet?
Tut, tut, tut. Graft and corruption in Argentina; how can you possibly say
that? In this case, I think that what you really meant to say was that a
certain party has been granted a "special franchise" to handle the customs
arrangements.
I am sure you unders
