On 31 Jan 2009 12:45:04 GMT, Jim Beckman
wrote:


What does it cost you to use the field, or do you own it (in which case,
how much do you pay in taxes for the field)? Oh, and while we're at it,
just where is the field? I'd really like to understand how the Europeans
keep the costs so low - it would be nice if we could do the same here in
the Colonies.

Well... in the past we used the fiel essentially for free.
In 1999 we bought the airfield for about 300.000 Euro (which we shared
50:50 with the second club at Landau). The repayment of our 150.000
Euro share is going to be finished in 2011.
Unfortunately we were not able to invest in new gliders since 1999, so
the average age of our fleet has suffered badly.

Here's our website:
www.djk-landau.de