Ok...bit of bid history (as I recall it.....this was a number of years ago)....
Bid placed to the CIAM in 2001 (I think) for the 2003 WC to be held in Canada.....at the meeting a last minute proposal was placed by Poland in fact it was not even a formal proposal....however the vote by the CIAM was in favour of Poland (this would be their second F3A WC)....reasons...who knows you would have to ask the CIAM members for their decisions.
A second bid placed to the CIAM in 2003 to host the 2005 WC....it was in fact the same bid used previously.....France also submitted a bid. This was an extremely close vote between the two countries...in the end France was awarded the bid to my understanding a large part of the reason had to do with allowing CPLR to defend his title for the 3rd time on his home soil. How true that is I dont know.....
Bid for the 2007 WC, a proposal was submitted by Argentina.....unchallenged, so the 2007 F3A WC will be in Argentina.
If you want to know what a bid looks like, look no further than the intial bulletin for the WC provided by the organizers to the teams.....they are basically the same thing. The FAI cares more about location, date, weather, accomodations etc etc. than they do about making it a financial sucess as that is the responsibilty of the host country. They simply care that a WC will be crowned at an appropriate event without issue.
FYI. Chad's conversion to CAD for entry fees is about 30% too high. a pilot entry fee to the F3A worlds is 400 euro, about 600cad. he may be paying $800 as an entry fee, but some of that would be used to offset manager and helper entry fees.
400 Euro entry, + 80 Euro for caller (this is mandatory per pilot....unless another flier is calling for you, which is rare) = 480E per pilot....at the time of registration the exchange was $1.60 or so......= $768 give or take a bit.....
Managers are 250E and are separate to pilots.....43 countries....43 managers.
You must understand that pattern is a long long event with much history and precedent set for entries etc....this is the 24th WC for F3A...so 48 years of events....the estimates of cost and entries are not up in the cloud numbers but numbers which have be demonstated acheivable at many other F3A WC.
Anyways, this is really WAY off topic
and all the discussion here wont change the fact that Canada will not be submitting another bid for this event...simple as that.
All I really want to know is if the 2006 Nats are going ahead or not [8D]