The 2025 FAI F3P World Championships for Indoor Aerobatic Model Aircraft: Ignace Pawlenko takes 8th place
Ignace Pawlenko, the only Belgian pilot selected to participate, obtained excellent results in both categories:
Please join me an congratulate Ignace for his dedication, sportsmanship and with this more then admirable performance.
The world's best senior and junior pilots have put their precision aerobatic manoeuvres to the test in the hopes of gaining a place on the podium.
The sixth edition of this spectacular competition was held between 2 - 8 February 2025 at the Burkertsmatt Sports Arena, in Widen, Switserland and featured two challenging categories:
- F3P-A in which competitors fly a predefined sequence of manoeuvres to the highest degree of precision possible
- F3P-AFM in which the aircraft follow a choreographed aerobatic flight set to music
A total of 33 athletes from 10 countries (Austria, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Japan, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland and Switzerland) competed in the F3P-A class, with 26 athletes participating in the F3P-AFM choreographed competition. Their flights were judged by international judges.
Seven juniors competed in the F3P-A category, with five of these also taking on the AFM category against another five competitors.
All flights of the competition are available on a dedicated YouTube channel.