After a series of successes in local races, it was time to test ourselves at something more serious. The event organised by the AirCrasher crew in Aichtal near Stuttgart is one of the largest annual FPV competitions in Europe, attracting the top of the world ranking – and this year was no exception: Yuki Hashimoto from Japan, Killian Rousseau from France, Marvin Schäpper from Luxembourg, Dimo „Burkan” Shterev from Bulgaria – to name just a few.
For Stachu, these were his first „serious” competitions – not so much about fighting for a podium as about going up against the best and seeing where he stands in that field.
We headed to the event right after the 8th-grade final exams – Stachu’s last exam (English) was on Wednesday, May 13. The same day we set off from home, arriving in Aichtal on Thursday morning. The three of us travelled: Stachu, myself, and Stachu’s mum Edyta. On site we met up with pilots we’re friends with from our region – Poland (Mroowa, BlueWolf, Tisha), Slovakia (TimurFPV, Fen1X_FPV, Roc_FPV), Czech Republic (SpaglFPV, Gagin), and PenPen (Chinese, currently based in Austria).
Over four days, six separate competitions were held; Stachu took part in all of them except the 40+ category. Below are the detailed results – each section covers the format first, then qualifying, then the finals.