The OPEN has come to its conclusion in great style and we have a whole host of winners to announce.  Despite a good showing from Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Luxembourgian pilots, we are pleased to say that a British pilot has won our inaugural OPEN at Unlimited and, after a 15 year break from competition aerobatics, Mark Jefferies has made a welcome return.  Your champions are:

British Aerobatics OPEN Champions 2024

• Unlimited - Melanie Astles
• Advanced - Maciej Kulaszewski
• Freestyle - Mark Jefferies

British Aerobatics NATIONAL Champions 2024

• Unlimited - Melanie Astles
• Advanced - Steven Bakhtiari

When it comes to the rest of the places, there were two contests running in tandem so the podium places for the OPEN contest were:

British Aerobatics OPEN Championship 2024 - UNLIMITED

• Gold - Melanie Astles
• Silver - Daniel Genevey
  
• Bronze - Cyrial Talon

British Aerobatics OPEN Championship 2024 - ADVANCED

• Gold - Maciej Kulaszewski
• Silver - Andrea Pesenato
  
• Bronze - Steven Bakhtiari

The podium places for the NATIONAL contest were:

British Aerobatics NATIONAL Championship 2024 - UNLIMITED

• Gold - Melanie Astles
• Silver - Phil Burgess
  
• Bronze - David Nichols

British Aerobatics NATIONAL Championship 2024 - ADVANCED

• Gold - Steven Bakhtiari
• Silver - Carl Cox
  
• Bronze - Ben Filer

Full scores for the contest are as follows:

We hope you managed to catch some of the action by watching the LIVESTREAM video.  We will be reaching out to members to ask for feedback on the coverage and the event itself so that we can make it even better next year.

Be safe & enjoy your flying!

The OPEN Organising Team