08 Feb 2025

Finals in Aerobatics Freestyle to Music at the FAI World Championship for Indoor Aerobatic Model Aircraft

(Left to right: Gernot Bruckman, Maxime Schmitt, Andreas Wildauer)

France's Maxime Schmitt has swooped to the top of the Aerobatics Freestyle to Music (AFM) podium today, 8 February, at the 2025 FAI F3P World Championship for Indoor Aerobatic Model Aircraft in Switzerland, with exceptional flights gaining him maximum points across five rounds.

Taking silver and bronze medals home to Austria in this category are Gernot Bruckmann (who claimed gold in the Aerobatics category on Friday 7 February) and Andreas Wildauer. These three pilots have competed together for several years - Schmitt and Wildauer both reached podium position as juniors in this category when it was first introduced in 2019.

Talented young pilot Lucas Poncet - a junior competitor - took fourth position, and claimed a gold in his junior class, mirroring his win in the F3P-A category. However it was Matteo Pasini of Switzerland who claimed the bronze among the juniors in the AFM.