There are a lot of Aeros Combat's being flown here in Australia at the Forbes Flatlands and the Bogong Cup. It used to be that pilots could attribute the success of the Aeros glider (the World Champion glider, after all) to the skill of the pilot (Oleg). No longer. Aeros glider are popular enough now that their results begin to resemble the results racked up by the Moyes pilots (although not quite here in the home of Moyes, Australia).

There were five Aeros Combats in the top twenty at the Forbes Flatlands. The Russians, of course, fly the Aeros Combats, from the Ukraine (close enough to Russia). As does Mario Alonzi and Laurent Thevenot (recognize the surname?) from France.

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/forbes2008/c1total.html

There were three Aeros Combats in the top ten at the Bogong Cup. http://weshill.customer.netspace.net.au/bogong 2008 totals.html.

Aeros gliders have a reputation for gliding very well and very fast. I imagine that they are one of the least expensive gliders these days, but I'm not sure of that. Depends on the country and the exchange rates I suspect. Wills Wing gliders are very reasonable in the US, for example.

For the story on the success of Moyes and how the Aeros story here fits in see: http://ozreport.com/11.168