Flavio <<email>> writes:

Thank you for your congratulations. It was hard to win because Vicki and Jonny did such a great job supporting Forbes.

Sure cost was a very important issue. You've also got to consider that European pilots have to work during their winter season. Consider that the budget for my team in Laragne will be about 18,000 Euros. In contrast to go to Big Spring we spent 35,000 Euros and to go to Hay it cost us 38,000 Euros.

Very important also is the issue of foot launching. We feel that too many worlds in the past years have been held in flatlands (1998, 2003, 2005, 2007).

There is no problem with annoying flies and other insects in Italy. There is no need for very long retrievals.

We have very large take off sites for almost all wind directions. There is no problem with team size as there is this year in Laragne, France.

You can expect more technical flights with varying conditions (mountains, hills and flatlands). The area has beautiful surroundings and very cheap costs.

There are many others issues. You can find our power point formatted presentation here: http://www.deltaclublaveno.it/Cucco2011.ppt.zip (26 MB).

Yes, you can use 2 meter radios (in spite of what it says in our original proposal). We used them last year during the rigid and women’s worlds.

This is no problem with airspace restrictions. Like at the 2008 worlds we'll request a NOTAM and to use part of the Perugia CTR.

The pilots will receive many benefits from the local funds (100,000 Euros), but I don't know them all yet.

We would like give GPS transmitters to all the pilots in order to follow them during the competition. This is especially for safety reason, but not only for that.