Championships News

Russian pilot Mikhail Mamistov swept to victory along with the Russian Team at the European Aerobatic Championships that concluded on Saturday, 12 July.

Full results can be found at www.civa-results.com.

Mikhail Mamistov

Mikhail Mamistov flew to victory in Programme 1 -- the Free Programme -- at the 16th European Aerobatic Championships in the Czech Republic today. This follows his win of the Q Programme.

Flying of the First Unknown began this afternoon and will continue tomorrow.

Results can be found at www.civa-results.com.

Today, flying of Programme 1 -- the Free Programme -- continues. Yesterday, over half of the competitors completed their Frees and it is likely the Programme will finish today.

The competition has been delayed by bad weather throughout the week but finally acceptable conditions were realized yesterday and the contest organization went into high gear. The remainder of the pilots will fly their Free Programmes today.

The flying of the First Unknown (Programme 2) will then commence. It is attached below for download in PDF format and the document includes Forms A, B, and C.

The last six pilots will fly Programme Q this morning at Hradec Kralove. The contest has been delayed by rain and high winds but weather was favorable this morning, so the first pilot (Martin Muck of the Czech Republic) launched at 09.36.

Today, the presentation of Unknown figures will also take place by Teams who either had automatic right of selection or which were selected in a drawing of lots. These countries are Russia, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, France, Israel, Portugal, and Switzerland.

The European Championships continues today after the loss of a complete day on Monday, 7 July. The weather is beautiful as the day begins and Hanspeter Rohner of Switzerland is first in the order of flight.

Programme Q should complete today and full results will be posted at www.civa-results.com.