posted Mar 20th, 2022 - The German national outdoor team in 4-way Open, Airbus Oceanside Illertissen, continues to impress with their new lineup. The NSL News had featured the team with NSL Live Talk on 3 December 2021, during a winter training camp at Skydive DeLand.

The Airbus 4-way team had upset the previous national outdoor team and 4-way champion, Oceanside AtomiX, at the German Outdoor Nationals 2021 and new member Felix Pfeiffer's first live AAA Class competition. The outdoor training camp in DeLand was the first one after team member Alexander Prendinger had also decided to leave the Airbus 8-way lineup and focus only on 4-way training and competition.

Indoor training is still a valuable tool for the team and especially a part of the winter season in Germany. Airbus were well prepared for the national indoor championships last week, despite the main focus on outdoor training and competition.

Airbus Oceanside Illertissen did not win the indoor title that Jochen Schweizer Arena's Airforce defended successfully. However, the German indoor nationals featured a battle for the top spot this time, after the previous event in March 2019, where Airforce walked away with a 29-point lead ahead of AtomiX after Round 10.

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Germany Indoor Nationals 2022			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		1,17,J	A,O,5,D	9,H,2	10,12,21	E,M,3,C	16,8,K	B,7,P,4	L,15,14	G,19,N,22	18,20,13	Total	Avg
1	Jochen Schweizer Arena Airforce	DE	24	34	29	19	32	23	30	24	23	15	253	25.3
2	Airbus Oceanside Illertissen	DE	24	30	27	17	34	20	26	23	23	20	244	24.4
3	Piteraq	DE	22	29	23	17	31	19	26	19	20	17	223	22.3
3	Paratec-Saar	DE	22	29	26	16	26	17	26	22	22	17	223	22.3
5	Skynamite	DE	21	24	25	17	27	20	24	19	21	17	215	21.5
6	Paranodon 4way Illertissen	DE	21	22	21	15	27	15	23	18	17	13	192	19.2
7	EOS	CH	20	24	21	13	24	18	22	13	14	17	186	18.6
8	NeVa FSZ Saar	DE	16	23	20	15	23	17	23	15	17	15	184	18.4
9	Bardarbunga Flystation Munich	DE	16	22	19	15	21	15	21	18	16	16	179	17.9
10	Buena Vista Tunnel Club	DE	14	20	18	14	19	15	19	17	16	12	164	16.4
11	Funknown Spätis	DE	12	14	19	14	21	16	20	17	14	11	158	15.8
11	Feierabendflieger	DE	16	14	18	11	22	15	16	16	16	14	158	15.8
13	Air-W	CH	13	16	19	12	19	13	18	16	13	11	150	15.0
14	Das KO's Saar	DE	13	14	10	11	18	13	17	13	12	11	132	13.2

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Jochen Schweizer Arena Airforce - Airbus Oceanside Illertissen at the Germany Indoor Nationals 2022

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Jochen Schweizer Arena's Airforce came back with a different lineup, too, three years after their previous victory at the 2019 event. Christian Kautzmann, Christian Schafer, Elischa Weber and Stefan Wiesner won the first German indoor title and competed for their country at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2019, where they finished in 9th place with a 26.2 average.

Bundeswehr CISM competitors Elischa Weber, Christian Kautzmann, and former Airbus member Christian Schafer now came back with a new German 4-way soldier, Robin Griesheimer, who attended his first civilian 4-way AAA Class competition.

Airbus Oceanside Illertissen finished with almost exactly the same average (24.4) that AtomiX had posted at the previous event (24.3) three years ago. It became a 9-point battle last weekend, as the new Airforce lineup did not finish on the same scoring level, while Airbus did better than expected.

The 24.4 average is a new Airbus indoor record average, after winning two rounds and two additional ties with the Airforce team, even for Thomas Mack, who had a 24.0 average in his own books since April 2018.

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Germany 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	DE	23	38	26	27	25	37	21	28	24	23	272	27.2
2	Oceanside AtomiX/Skydive-Hildesheim	DE	21	34	22	22	24	32	21	26	20	21	243	24.3
3	Skynamite FSZ Saar	DE	19	29	16	20	21	31	19	20	15	21	211	21.1
4	Piteraq	DE	15	29	19	20	15	33	19	19	19	19	207	20.7
5	No Limits	RU	16	28	19	17	17	28	19	20	18	15	197	19.7
6	Hoo Lee Shit	DE	16	23	17	18	18	26	14	19	16	19	186	18.6
7	NeVa FSZ Saar	DE	16	22	17	16	17	27	17	17	14	16	179	17.9
8	Wintertunnel	DE	16	23	14	16	14	26	13	16	9	16	163	16.3
9	SkymaxX	DE	13	22	15	13	14	22	10	14	12	14	149	14.9
10	4 xmpl	DE	13	17	14	14	14	23	13	13	11	15	147	14.7
11	HorschD - FSZ Saar	DE	13	20	15	12	11	21	13	14	11	16	146	14.6
12	Airgrips	DE	13	21	13	14	14	22	13	11	10	12	143	14.3
13	4Motion - Eisenach	DE	10	17	12	10	10	17	9	9	10	11	115	11.5

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Jochen Schweizer Arena Airforce - Oceanside AtomiX/Skydive-Hildesheim at the Germany Indoor Nationals 2019

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