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About F5J

In the F5J competition class, the aim is to fly a remote-controlled glider with an electric motor for 10 minutes from as low a take-off altitude as possible and then aim for a spot landing.

The running time of the motor is limited to a maximum of 30 seconds. The take-off altitude is measured by a technical device in the glider and sanctioned with a point deduction.

The combination of the flight time, the accuracy of the landing and the deduction for the take-off altitude achieved results in the score for the respective flight.

Depending on the weather conditions and the skill of the pilot, this task is sometimes mastered from a starting altitude of less than 10 metres and sometimes more than 200 m are not enough

The pilots‘ goal is to find and use even the smallest updrafts (thermals), otherwise the specified flight duration of 10 minutes cannot be achieved.

F5J planes usually have a wingspan between 3.5 and 4 metres. They are mostly made of carbon fibre, which allows a flying weight of starting at 1,000 grams (12 g/dm² is the FAI limit). However, wooden planes are also sometimes used.

Within a few years, F5J has become one of the most popular competition classes. In 2019, over 500 pilots took part in 26 competitions of CONTEST Eurotour F5J in many European countries.

In 2018, the first European Championship took place in Dupnitsa Bulgaria, in 2019 the first World Championship in Trnava, Slovakia.

Rules (… come later …)

Information for and from pilots (… come later …)

Information for organizers and those who would like to become organizers in the future (… come later …)

Invitation to the F5J CONTEST Eurotour…

…come and take part in one of the many CONTEST Eurotour competitions in Europe. It is an honor and an outstanding flying achievement to win one of these competitions. Each winner receives one of the much sought-after wing trophies. In addition, the overall annual winner receives a challenge cup and the 10 best placed in the overall annual ranking receive CONTEST Eurotour T-shirts. The best Junior receives a special prize. And at the end of the season, non-cash prizes from the sponsors will be raffled off among all participants. So everyone has the chance to win something. Come and join in.

New scoring system for the annual overall ranking of the CONTEST Eurotour in the competition Category F5J from 2024

Draft of the F5J CONTEST Eurotour calendar 2025 (20.12.2024)

At the request of many to plan their personal vacation in 2025 and the competitions in 2025, following you can find a draft of the F5J CONTEST Eurotour Calendar 2025.

Please note that there are still some uncertainties regarding some dates (LAT, ROU).

Furthermore, contact details may still be incorrect and/or incomplete and most of the links have not yet been updated.

I apologize for this, but the desire of many to plan the dates has prompted me to publish the draft despite the errors.

There will be a corrected calendar at the beginning of January 2025.

Until then, I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Draft of the F5J CONTEST Eurotour calendar 2025

Upcoming CONTEST Eurotour Events

F5J CONTEST Eurotour results 2024 (15.12.2024 – 24/24 online)

To all pilots. Please enter the competitions “exactly” with the name that you officially have on your FAI license and please always include your FAI ID. In the tables here we will only use the names and data of your licenses officially stored in the FAI database. Without this, it becomes difficult, especially within families, to distinguish who actually flew and to whom the points must be allocated. Please do not use nicknames or name abbreviations. So if there are errors on the licenses themselves, you will have to have them corrected by your NAC yourself for next year.

If anything is unclear, the entries are made in red. For this or if you see any other errors in the data or results, please contact us at > tm.f5j@contest-modellsport.de < for clarification.

Many thanks for your help.

Official annual overall result of the F5J CONTEST Eurotour 2024

Here are the current top pilots:

Senior:

1. Place ITA Tommaso Bebi … (327,081 – 3/8 -170)
2. Place ITA Alessandro Aramini … (324,600 – 3/6 -165)
3. Place GER Thomas Rößner … (320,385 – 3/5 – 140)
   

Junior:

1. Place GER Lukas Dietrich … (319,156 – 3/3 – 201)
2. Place GRE Christos Ntanavaras … (315,225 – 3/5 – 143)
3. Place ITA Fillippo De Luca … (313,154 – 3/7 – 119)
   

Female:

1. Place GER Anna Schütz … (294,613 – 3/6 – 210)
2. Place GER Anne Janzer … (239,545 – 3/6 – 186)
3. Place CZE Jana Štěrbová … (228,441 – 3/3 – 248)
   

Senior 65+:

1. Place SWE Lennart Arvidsson … (279,359 – 3/3 – 189)
2. Place FRA Gilles Bechepay … (271,123 – 3/5 – 282)
3. Place FRA Jacques Huret … (257,450- 3/3 – 155)
   

Remark: (xxx,xxx – y/z – nnn)
xxx,xxx = individual points
y = number of rated competition
z = total number of competitions flown
nnn = total number (sum) of pilots who participated in the 3 rated competitions

Nations ranking (sum of the results of the 3 best pilots of a country):

1. Place ITA
   Tommaso Bebi (1)
   Alessandro Aramin (2)
   Fillippo De Luca (12)
   (964,835 = 97,46 % – 9/21)
   .
2. Place GER
   Thomas Rößner (3)
   Lukas Dietrich (5)
   Olaf Starmanns (6)
   (955,941 = 96,56 % – 9/14)
   .
3. Place FRA
   Adrien Gallet (7)
   Philippe Quentin (14)
   Nicolas Chansard (15)
   (939,613 = 94,91 % – 9/11)

……. and Czech Republic follows extreme closely, with 936,687 points on 4th place

Dominant winners (preliminary rounds and fly-off won = 110,000 points)

F5J Bulgaria CUP with 50 participants
ITA Tommaso Bebi

GliderKeeper F5J Masters Escalona with 33 participants
ESP Nicolas William Ridray

MILITKY CUP 2024 with 19 participants
AUT Hermann Haas

Loire Valley Trophy F5J with 61 participants
FRA Adrien Gallet

F5J Tirol Trophy with 54 participants
ITA Alessandro Aramini

Open Pikuinhas F5J 2024 with 22 participants
POR Oscar Lopes

And a few statistical data:

24/24 competitions flown

542 pilots
of which 167 pilots have 3 or more competition results
131 pilots have 2 competition results and
244 pilots still have 1 competition result

30 nations

384 seniors

117 seniors 65+
(of which at least 3 are 80+)

38 juniors

11 female

On average, the competitions had around 50,8 participants from 7,2 nations

Overall (including fly-offs) over 9913 flights were carried out…

Official annual overall result of the F5J CONTEST Eurotour 2024

The following table can only be meaningfully read on a computer screen. The display is simply too small on a cell phone. To read the table better, you can mark individual lines and then scroll sideways. The 3 best results of a pilot are marked in yellow.

Please, can everyone check their results to see if everything is there and entered correctly ?

Results reports from the last competitions 2025

01 – GRE Larisa F5J Meeting 20245 F5j

F5J CONTEST Eurotour results archive

F5J Tourmanager (2024 – …… )

I first got into model flying at the age of 13 at school through a model helicopter group and then found my way to model gliding through a school friend. Although I also built motorized aerobatic models and flew them in a few competitions, the silent gliding in the thermals with model gliders became my passion and so as a teenager I participated successfully in many competitions, including winning the German Youth Championship in 1984.

Because of my studies, job and later family, I didn’t get to fly again for many years, until my children were fascinated by finding my old models in the cellar of our house in 2012 and my wife said that I „have to“ go flying with my children now… My children quickly learned to fly and then took part in F5J competitions with me. As a German-Brazilian family, we founded the F5J Team Gerbrany and have since then taken part in many international F5J competitions on the CONTEST Eurotour. My children even took part alternating in the F5J European Championships 2018 in Bulgaria and the F5J World Championships 2019 in Slovakia and 2023 in Bulgaria for Germany and Brazil respectively. Hereby I took on a lot of organizational tasks for the national teams in the background, acted as a helper for my children and took on public relations work including of publishing several reports in Model aircraft magazines.

With the previous F5J CONTEST Tourmanager Uwe Weiß and his son Jan-Niclas, we flew many F5J competitions together. Now that Uwe is no longer actively participating in F5J competitions, he has asked me to take over his duties as F5J CONTEST Tourmanager. Since my family and I have always received support and encouragement from so many others in the F5J scene, it is an honor for me to take on this task and I also see it as my obligation to do my part in preserving and promoting this fascinating sport with its exciting competitions.

In order to realize this in the best possible way in the interests of everyone, I would be very happy to receive suggestions, ideas and criticism from the organizers and participating pilots.

Therefore I am available at any time via the contact email address tm.f5j@contest-modellsport.de.

Kind regards

Andreas Freundl

F5J Tourmanager (2018 – 2023)

Former F5J Tourmanager (1994/2011 – 2017)

As one of the original founders of the CONTEST Eurotour, Alexander Wunschheim was, among other things, F5J Tourmanager until 2017. (Note: The F5J competition class itself only exists from 2011)