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 understand how this system works. Any pilot is quite free to use somebody else, but ........do keep in mind that if said pilot chooses the "alternate" route "Nothing can be guaranteed". I will leave it to your imagination to suppose which of the many dire possibilities that can happen, WILL actually happen. Do keep in mind too, that "importing the glider" is regarded as one exercise, and "exporting the (same) glider" is regarded as a totally different exercise - so (just for a start), read "pay double". A very level playing field (for all but the Argentinean competitors): As long as you are a millionaire pilot and can pay on demand without hurting too much, or fully funded by your country regardless of cost, you will not have a problem! I think that Tim will prove right on the numbers. I fell really sorry for Mike Durrant. He told me recently, that the true cost to be competitive in Standard Class in Argentina was of the order of A$50,000.00. This involved importing in, and then exporting out a competitive glider as NO glider was available for hire in the whole of South America, let alone in Argentina. Any competitive glider in SA would already be entered into the competition! Ron, I think the quanta of those "custom handling fees" you mentioned is about right, but maybe one of the people with first hand knowledge can confirm this? 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. I sure would like to know how Craig and Tobias are managing (if at all), these basically financial/logistical problems. It would seem that, as always, the flying is the easy(?) part of the exercise, but more so in this venture! Regards, Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron Sanders To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 2:00 PM Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Argentinian Worlds With 10,000 USD required as graft to get a glider thru customs I think the IGC should have cancelled the event and held it some where where corruption is not the name of the game. On 30 June 2012 11:37, Tim Shirley <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Ron, As I understand it there have been significant problems with the costs and bureaucratic difficulties of getting gliders into the country. Apparently there are very few modern gliders available locally. I believe that Allan will now be flying in the World Class as it is possible for him to hire a PW5 in Argentina. Tobi Geiger, Craig Collings and Mike Durrant were in the original team with Allan - Mike has withdrawn because of the costs but I assume that Tobi and Craig are still attending. Both are in Club Class. This has not only affected Australia, there are many others around the world who are facing this problem. It may be a fairly small event. Cheers Tim tra dire e fare c'รจ mezzo il mare On 30/06/2012 13:21, Ron Sanders wrote: ONLY Alan?????? On 29 June 2012 20:04, Ian Mc Phee <[email protected]> wrote: Think Allan Barnes will be there. Ian M On Jun 29, 2012 9:07 PM, "Ron Sanders" <[email protected]> wrote: I was just wondering if Australia has any pilots at all attending the Argentinian Worlds in January 2013? _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2178 / Virus Database: 2437/5101 - Release Date: 06/29/12
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