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Thread: [IAC] US Advanced team in Europe
Message: [IAC] US Advanced team in Europe
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From: IMACRO at aol.com
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 20:20:33 UTC
Hello once more from the Czech Republic. This is our 6th day here in Europe and for the first time the weather has turned cool and we have intermittent light rain. It is 3pm and thus far, Paul is the only who has braved the elements and made a practice flight. We have 5 more days before Phil Knight will get here and the practice will begin in earnest, so no one wants to fly in less than ideal conditions. The reason we are here so far ahead of our team trainer, it to insure the arrival and readiness of the planes. Since we brought the planes over on container ships, we had to cover ourselves for all of the possible delays. Sure enough, one of the containers got lost at the docks on New York. The extra time that we allowed has proven worthwhile. It looks like it will get here just in time for the practice session, but with out the extra time allowed, we would be two pilots short. Right now, we have the four planes that did arrive assembled and flying. None of the planes had so much as a scratch on them as a result of the shipping. The good part of being here so early, is the great hospitality and the inexpensive food and beer. The people of the Czech Republic are warm and frendly. Everywhere we go, we are greeted with a smile. A tall (about 16 oz) bottle of Pivo (beer) is 20 Krona, which is about 60 cents. We just went downtown for lunch at a real nice restaurant and food enough for an evening meal and we spent about $4.00 each including soft drinks. I don't think you could eat enough to spend $12.00 for dinner. The food is so inexpensive here that I would eat here every night from now on if the ticket to get wasn't much. Just kidding. Unfortunately, the price of fuel isn't so cheap. At $1.25 per liter, it works to a little less than $5.00 per US gallon for either auto or avgas. We figured over lunch that we would burn more money in fuel, than we will eat during the entire time that we are here in the Czech Republic. Many people had expressed concerns about our ability to obtain certain items in the store. We have not discovered anything that we want that is not available at pretty much the same price as the US or a little less. The only glaring exception is wrenches in inches. Everything is metric. There is no shortage of goods in the stores either. I even picked up a couple US made CDs for $5.00 each. I have been taking a lot of picture with my digital camera, and I have just started to upload them to a web page. Go to http://hometown.aol.com/imacro/Advteam.html and have a look at the Advanced team in the Czech Republic. Bob Stark
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