The national 4-way teams of the country, Airbus Oceanside Illertissen and Meltemi Oceanside Illertissen, have not won FAI medals yet, while they are still heavily involved in the competition for the closest positions right behind the medal winners. Airbus has been a challenger for the unofficial amateur world championship title in 2022 and 2024 where they placed 8th (2022) and 6th (2024) with the same lineup. Meltemi placed 4th at the same two events.

Thomas Mack has been the outside center for the Airbus 4-way team since 2012, and he has also been in the Airbus 8-way lineups between 2012 and 2018, as the overview on 31 December 2024 was showing. He re-built the Airbus 4-way lineup in 2019 when Markus Bastuck, Goeran Meyer and Joern Thiele did not continue. Sarah Mertes, Alexander Prendinger were his new 4-way team mates, and he still had Andreas Trögele on camera. Felix Pfeiffer filled the open slot beginning in 2020. The new lineup won the national championships consecutively since 2021 and represented Germany in 4-way Open in Eloy 2022 and Crystal Coast 2024. This lineup has now come to an end, and Airbus announced the changes with the beginning of the new year.

The new front piece is probably not a big surprise, as Tim Mack was already close to the team, and not only due to his family connection. He was filming the Airbus 4-way team to the 6th place at the 26th FAI World Formation Skydiving Championships in October last year.

He was only filling the open camera slot at Crystal Coast, without the intention of making this a permanent position. In fact, he was competing twice with Teiwaz in the point slot last year, including the national outdoor championship in September. He had one test in the camera slot for Airbus at the ESL Championship 2024, where Airbus confirmed him, before he traveled to North Carolina with Airbus and his father. All four members of the new Airbus lineup actually competed in the AAA Class competition of the German Nationals 2024, Thomas Mack and Felix Pfeiffer with Airbus, Claire Rebhahn with Meltemi, who placed right behind Airbus in 2nd place, Tim Mack with Teiwaz Cirkus. They all continued at Crystal Coast with their respective teams, Tim Mack now on camera for Airbus. He was finally recruited for the open point slot and will continue the Airbus mission of winning the unofficial amateur world championship title and break through the 20-average benchmark.