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From: Salvadori Luca <lsalvadori at batman.laben.it>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 14:02:06 UTC
Italian Aerobatic Team met on Apr 21 in Milan for the first organizing meeting to prepare to World Aerobatic Championship of Oklahoma City. The Team, although not officially appointed because of the nasty delays on Italian National Aero Club Board, has anyway started its training and organization tasks in order to be ready in time for the long trip. Team Manager, Luca Salvadori, presented the actions performed and the information obtained so far: the biggest problem to solve, even neglecting at first the budgetary constraints imposed by NAC, is the transfer of the aircraft to the other side of the world. This is both an economical problem, because shipping is costly and requires additional work to dismount and palletize the planes, and an organization one: being the shipping by air absolutely unaffordable, the transfer by ship has a long lead time, thus deprivating the pilots of their aircraft one month before the competition. Several European teams, thought to have similar issues, have been asked to join forces in order to abate unit costs, and some did accept the idea to collaborate, with results to come soon. Another issue is the type of aircraft: Team's pilots fly on four different machines, thus allowing no standardization of types and training. Moreover, being the machines owned by the pilots themselves, each one is obviously reluctant to handle it to another guy. Positive results, instead, on the training side: Italian Team applies since years (even if someone could prefer to do differently) the individual training method, used for the first time this year by U.S. Aerobatic Team. This is a drawback of the little organization Italy can afford for the Team, but this way any pilot is allowed to train with maximum flexibility: a quite important thing, when considering that all pilots are not professionals and have their own work to do. The first refinement check showed that, even if weather has been bad for most of the winter limiting flight sorties, preparation level is fairly good: aircraft are competitive and well fitted, free programs are coordinated among Team members. Ruggero ROSSINI (1995 Italian Unlimited Champion) and Fabio VIVIANI are leaving with their CAP-231EX for Troyes (F), where they will fly some weeks with Xavier De L'Apparent as trainer. Gianfranco Cillario is flying in his Cuneo-levaldigi home base with the Team's Judge, Aldo MARENGO, on his standard CAP-231: with the same type of aircraft is training Andrea FOSSI, who has been recently in France for training with the French Team. The most experienced pilot of the Team, Sergio DALLAN, is now flying on Sukhoi SU-31 without major problems after years on his custom-built CAP-21DS "Silver Chicken", even because his long-standing experience on right-handed Zlins. Sergio is meanwhile pending a final decision on the aircraft to fly at WAC, because he's actually flying a SU-31 example hired from European Sukhoi distributor, Richard Goode, while his own SU-31 is sitting in hangar, grounded waiting for the conclusions of the inquiry on the sad Ricky Massegee's accident on a SU-31 of the same series. Now, it's matter of Italian NAC to finalize the efforts of all those peoples, deciding final budget for the trip and officially appointing all Team members. Hope it'll be soon... Find other details on Italian Aerobatic Team Home Page (http://aeroweb.lucia.it/en/sports/iat/index.htm). Luca Salvadori (Unofficial) Team Manager Italian Aerobatic Team