Roberto Nichele <<email>> writes:

Due to the always changing and very interesting US dollar, Wills Wing prices in Switzerland these days are quoted daily this way:

(The suggested US$ retail price plus approximately 500 US$ for packing and transport) times 1.076 (The Swiss VAT is 7.6%) times current US$/CHF exchange rate. This is quite easy and explainable to our customers. They can find the Wills Wing prices here: http://www.willswing.com/dbase/inventory_hgs.asp

So the all basic cost for a T2 without any options is ~7400.- CHF (~4700.- €'s) The T2C with all options included today would be ~9500.- CHF (~6000.- €'s)

To fix a given price we need 2/3 of the price in advance.

Aeros prices are also not too far away from this amount.

Nirosoft (Nirosoft GmbH) is my own company for the last ten years. The name is build by Nichele Roberto SOFTware :-) My main business is offering IT resources for mainframe development and analysis (IBM-MVS, DB2, PL1, IMS, etc), so that's what I work usually, programming old systems on black screens with green characters.

For the last six or seven years Kilian and I have been the official Wills Wing dealer for Switzerland. I run the hang gliding business over my Nirosoft company, with Kilian as partner, as he does most of the test flying and repairs. Last year we sold twenty five gliders!

The basic Aeros Combat L in Switzerland is 5950 € including the Swiss VAT and shipping. This would be 1200 € higher than the basic Wills Wing T2 as seen above.

Roberto spoke with Markus Eggimann <email>, the Swiss Aeros dealer, and found that a "fully equipped" Combat L goes for 6965 €, while a Wills Wing T2C costs 6000 €. These prices include Swiss VAT at 7.6% and shipping to Switzerland.

Have I got this right? Please send in any corrections. I would especially love to hear from any manufacturers or dealers/distributors. More soon.