April 2013 the Romanian Modelling Federation was allotted the 2015 F1ABP EuCh for Jun-iors. The Federation team, now lead by Gringu Alexandru Popa, is one of the most experi-enced at all, having organized more international championships than any other in the world. For free flight, Romania offers several good fields, with Salonta close to the Hungari-an border as the favourite. It hosted already the F1ABP WCh in 2010 and several World Cups, offering advantages not easy to beat. Not only that the field is huge (about 4 x 4 km), it is as well situated just a few kilometres from the hotels. Thus, after the end of the seventh round about 14 h, one could spent the afternoon in the shadow. This healthy interruption made it easier to stand the heat raising from 20° in the morning to 38° at the end of the rounds. The weather was very stable with wind speeds from zero to four m/sec.

Endangered were the superb conditions by a farming project of bisons. These biggest Euro-pean mammals were grown behind huge metal gates. Two times the flight line had to be shifted to avoid models landing inside these fenced areas, and actually very few had to be retrieved out of them.

Another advantage of the venue is the Salonta Modelling Club which – using the field regu-larly – trained a reliable crew of timekeepers and provided a competent Contest Director. Szilard Sijjarto from Salonta won a few days before F1A-Bronze at the WCh in Mongolia; technical assistance came from two-times F1A-World Champion Per Findahl (SWE).

For processing, opening and closing the town gave their big, well built sports hall at the championships disposal.