posted Dec 12th, 2021 - The recent visit of the German national team in 4-way Open, Airbus Oceanside Illertissen, was an opportunity for the NSL News to learn more about the team plans for the next world meet season in 2022. However, Airbus also provided other interesting Formation Skydiving competition news from their country.

The German situation in 4-way Women has been catching the attention of the NSL News several times, as well, especially after the national team Skynamite's 2018 lineup disbanded and made new plans with two new team members. The NSL News covered the personnel change with the update on May 26th.

The new Skynamite lineup (Shaline Dincher, Katharina Reiß, Sylvia Schlaphof, Yasmin Schütte, Ralph Wilhelm on camera) competed at the German Outdoor Nationals this year and finished with exactly the same 14.3 average that the previous lineup had posted at the FAI Outdoor World Cup 2019.

It was yet not enough to win the new qualification for the next outdoor world meet in Eloy 2022. A new team with experienced 4-way competitors, Meltemi Illertissen, finished with a 15.5 average in 4th place on the 4-way Open Class leaderboard and will compete for the German Formation Skydiving delegation.

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German Outdoor Nationals 2021		1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	L,Q,2,8		K,19,N,13		17,12,20		C,3,1		6,M,11		14,9,O		22,15,16		G,18,21		J,10,H,7		B,F,D,E,A		Total	Avg
1	Airbus Illertissen	15	-1	17		13	-1	18		18	-1	17		13		14	-1	18		42		185	18.5
2	Oceanside AtomiX	14	-1	17	-1	15		17		19		19		13		15		17		32		178	17.8
3	Bardarbunga 3.0	16		17		15		15	-1	15	-1	18		13		14		18		30		171	17.1
4	Meltemi Illertissen	15		15		11		14		17		16		11		12		15		29		155	15.5
5	Paranodon 4way Illertissen	15		14		11		13		15		14		9		11	-2	14	-1	30		146	14.6
6	Skynamite	14		13		12		15		16		12	-2	9	-1	11	-2	13	-1	28		143	14.3
7	NeVa FSZ Saar	11		15		12		13		14		13		11		9		15		21		134	13.4
8	Sudwest NOG	11		13		11		12		13		13		9		11		14		21		128	12.8
9	Phoenix	11		11		10		11		11		11		9		9		6		17		106	10.6
10	Das KO's Saar	10		6		7		10		11		9		7		9		11		20		100	10.0

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Meltemi Illertissen - Skynamite at the German Outdoor Nationals 2021

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The Meltemi lineup includes Linda Köb, current member of the German 8-way team, Airbus München. The 8-way team will probably have a lighter training schedule next year, and she will be able to go well prepared into the 4-way and 8-way double duties in Eloy 2022.

Linda Köb has to master an additional 4-way task on top of the outdoor training and competition with the German world meet delegation. She is also in the Piteraq lineup, the 4-way Women team that finished right behind Skynamite at the last German indoor championships in March 2019.

Piteraq plan to compete at the FAI Indoor World Cup in Belgium in April 2022. Winner Skynamite will not be eligible as Germany's national team in 4-way Women after the personnel changes.

However, both teams could compete at the world cup anyway, as each country can sanction a total of four teams for a world cup.

Linda Köb's Meltemi outdoor team mate Susa Serra is also in the Piteraq lineup for the indoor world cup, together with Sylvia Maier and new member Petra Jastram.

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German Indoor Nationals 2019		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	21,22,G	E,M,Q,A,11	19,7,14	P,10,O,15	H,4,2	B,1,F,J	13,3,5	6,17,C	18,N,20	9,12,16	Total	Avg
1	Jochen Schweizer Arena Airfource	23	38	26	27	25	37	21	28	24	23	272	27.2
2	Oceanside AtomiX/Skydive-Hildesheim	21	34	22	22	24	32	21	26	20	21	243	24.3
3	Skynamite FSZ Saar	19	29	16	20	21	31	19	20	15	21	211	21.1
4	Piteraq	15	29	19	20	15	33	19	19	19	19	207	20.7
5	No Limits	16	28	19	17	17	28	19	20	18	15	197	19.7
6	Hoo Lee Shit	16	23	17	18	18	26	14	19	16	19	186	18.6
7	NeVa FSZ Saar	16	22	17	16	17	27	17	17	14	16	179	17.9
8	Wintertunnel	16	23	14	16	14	26	13	16	9	16	163	16.3
9	SkymaxX	13	22	15	13	14	22	10	14	12	14	149	14.9
10	4 xmpl	13	17	14	14	14	23	13	13	11	15	147	14.7
11	HorschD - FSZ Saar	13	20	15	12	11	21	13	14	11	16	146	14.6
12	Airgrips	13	21	13	14	14	22	13	11	10	12	143	14.3
13	4Motion - Eisenach	10	17	12	10	10	17	9	9	10	11	115	11.5

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Skynamite - Piteraq at the German Indoor Nationals 2019

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Linda Köb and Susa Serra will not compete together at the FAI Outdoor World Meet next year though. Susa Serra could not commit to both teams' indoor and outdoor plans, and Meltemi needed to find an adequate substitute. This turned out to be not too difficult, due to this year's events in Germany's 4-way Open Class world.

The NSL News mentioned on July 28th that Andrea Kleinschmidt and Holger Sass would not continue with Oceanside AtomiX after the cancellation of German participation at the FAI Tanay Mondial 2020. Andrea Kleinschmidt was ready to fill the open slot for Meltemi, and she recently committed to the plans for 2022.

Andrea Kleinschmidt is used to helping out when it is possible. She did the same while she was still training and competing with AtomiX. Skynamite needed a substitute for their trip to Arizona for the FAI Outdoor World Cup 2019, after Janine Tillenburg left the team earlier the same year. Linda Köb helped out at Germany's national championships, and Andrea Kleinschmidt took the slot for the world cup, where Linda Köb wanted to focus only on her 8-way job.

Andrea Kleinschmidt and Linda Köb have not been team mates yet, and they will now go to the world meet in Eloy together, where they both competed in October 2019. It will be a busy year for Linda Köb...