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25.01.2022 We can't wait to see everybody in just 4 days! This event would not be possible without the incredible support we have received from our event sponsors for 2019.... This year Nextfpv are our Official Retailer. You'll be able to find the NextFPV shop on site at the Nationals selling all kinds of drone and FPV goodies! They will have a massive range available so make sure you check out the NextFPV marquee when you're there. NextFPV are Australia's most trusted FPV retailer with all the high-tech, latest and greatest products you could ask for! The option for having goods ordered for pick up will be available to customers until Tuesday. Check out the store and grab a deal: https://www.nextfpv.com.au/ 2019 Mission Foods Australian Drone Nationals Australian FPV Association Inc. #AustralianDroneNationals #AUFPV #DroneRacing #NextFPV

25.01.2022 Final Results, Freestyle - Places 1st to 4th 2019 Mission Foods Australian Drone Nationals 1st: Heath 'Croble FPV' Whibley... 2nd: Thomas 'BMSThomas' Bitmatta 3rd: Jay 'jayb' Bellwood 4th: Granger 'GrangerKEK' Woolley Congratulations! Australian FPV Association Inc. Mission Foods AU XTEK LTD Nextfpv Criterion Solutions Model Aeronautical Association Australia ACT Aeromodellers Association Civil Aviation Safety Authority - CASA Defence Jobs Australia Lethalfpv Rising Sun FPV Buzz FPV

23.01.2022 Walk through from FAI World Drone Racing Championship final day

21.01.2022 5 MORE DAYS! We could almost start counting in hours we're so close. This event would not be possible without the incredible support we have received from our e...vent sponsors for 2019. Criterion Solutions is an Australian owned and operated company that was established in 2012 by a team with long term experience in the national security community. The company is composed of experts from across the globe in the fields of: Defence, Intelligence Analysis, Law Enforcement, IT and Systems Integration. https://www.criterionsolutions.net.au/ 2019 Mission Foods Australian Drone Nationals Australian FPV Association Inc. #AustralianDroneNationals #AUFPV #DroneRacing #CriterionSolutions

20.01.2022 Team Australia is jetting off to Ningbo, China is just 1 more week for the FAI World Championships! We've had some awesome support so far in the team fundraising efforts, but the trip is still far from fully funded. Approx total cost of the trip for the 10 member team (5 pilots, manager, and 4 helpers) is about $19,000. So far fundraising and subsidies from the likes of the Model Aeronautical Association Australia, our jersey sponsors FOXEER, Lethalfpv, Buzz FPV, FPVBits and ...Rising Sun FPV, and the wonderful people who've already donated to the GoFundMe campaign - have netted about $11,000. This still leaves the team with a trip expense of about $8,000. If you'd like to help out you can donate now to the GoFundMe. Donations will greatly help out the whole team including our selfless helpers making the trip with us. These are people we all know and love - Cathy Bibby (Sam Heeps' gorgeous Mother) Paul Bitmatta (Thomas' Father) Scott Woolley (Granger's Father) Nicholas Willard (Nicole's partner) Any amount great or small is appreciated, and sharing the GoFundMe link is also incredibly helpful! Cheers! Rhett Mooney (AUFPV Secretary, Team Manager) https://www.gofundme.com/f/team-australia-fai-world-champio

18.01.2022 Wow, what a weekend! The 4th Australian Drone Nationals is now in the history books. We can now say without a doubt that this year was the biggest and most chal...lenging yet. The number of participants has exceeded all previous years by a considerable margin and the spectator experience was absolutely more solid and engaging for all those who attended in person. The 2019 event has definitely set a new benchmark for FPV drone racing events in Australia and it leaves us wondering if there is any room for improvement. Executing this event would simply not have been possible without the tireless and dedicated help from a number of local and interstate volunteers. Absolutely everyone who took part in planning or running this event volunteered their time to ensure it was a success. A special thank you goes out to the Canberra Multirotor Racing Club members who rallied together to help with the event setup, running the information booth and going that extra mile to assist wherever it was needed. We'd like to single out and give a special thanks to members Phil Casey, Joe Igoe-Taylor, Henry Corbell, Dave Aitchison, Kirsten Aitchison, Ben Wilson, Joseph Curtis, Brent Sykes, Dean Koeck, Ben Brighton, Tom Gash, Nicholas Eberl and Scott Dillon. From the interstate crowd we would like offer a massive thank you to everyone who helped setup the track, pack up the track and ESPECIALLY with the Saturday night resurrection of the track after the tragic gale force winds tore it to pieces. There were too many of you to name all of you individually but you all know who you are! Some of the names that come to mind who were definitely there to help on more than one occasion were Riley Woods, Trevor Woods, Alex Porreca, Jack Woodward, Ken Peart, Elliot McPherson, Mark Bowman, Jonny Charles, Luke O’Keefe, Michael Maus, Jared Gould, Sharon Gould, Zakariah Martin-Taylor, Jamie Frederick, Kyle McBride, Chris McBride, Angus de Dear, Mitchell de Dear, Tim Bolger and Scott Tomlinson and probably a few we missed. It absolutely warms the organizers hearts to see so many of you willing to help out in times of need. Shout outs also go out to Matty Clarke, Joe Curtis, Jamie BIZZ Frederick and Mark Cocquio for stepping in and sharing the load on the commentating side of things, the variety of commentators throughout the event was most welcomed and kept the chatter entertaining. Lots of love to Dan Vogel for developing the FPV Trackside software. It was the keystone of the software stack that powered the event and all his hard work coding it throughout the year has certainly paid off. It was solid and reliable throughout the entire event and brings in unique features that no other FPV timing software does which enhances the spectator aspect of drone racing. Thank you for putting up with our endless requests, feature demands and questions throughout the last nine months. We really appreciate it and are proud to be your beta testers. Thanks to the Army Drone Racing Team and Army UAS Events team for bringing in their resources like shade tents, tables, chairs and shipping container as well as assist with media coordination and STEM engagement activities, nothing but absolute professionalism from your team as always. Finally, a sincere thank you must also go out to our loving sponsors and event supporters who provided us with the essential resources necessary to put on such an amazing event. Without these great businesses this event would have never occurred. Mission Foods AU XTEK LTD Nextfpv Criterion Solutions Model Aeronautical Association Australia ACT Aeromodellers Association Civil Aviation Safety Authority - CASA Defence Force Recruiting Canberra Lethalfpv Buzz FPV Rising Sun FPV *Also thanks to Paul Bitmatta for the sweet photo.

17.01.2022 Miss the Live Stream? Wanna re watch it? Catch all the action here from Day 3 Huge thank you to FPVTrackside providing the timing and video solution for the ent...ire weekend. 100% developed in Australia. https://www.facebook.com/fpvtrackside/ http://www.fpvtrackside.com/ 0:00:00 Racing Qualifying https://youtu.be/uOJcVFZ9mG4 5:10:00 Racing Top 48 https://youtu.be/uOJcVFZ9mG4?t=18602 8:57:10 Racing Semi Finals Top 12 https://youtu.be/uOJcVFZ9mG4?t=32231 9:28:30 Freestyle Semi Finals Top 4 https://youtu.be/uOJcVFZ9mG4?t=34113 9:45:00 Freestyle Final Top 2 https://youtu.be/uOJcVFZ9mG4?t=35102 10:00:00 Racing Final Top 6 https://youtu.be/uOJcVFZ9mG4?t=36000 Bonus - BMSThomas 23.01s Fastest Lap of the Event https://youtu.be/uOJcVFZ9mG4?t=36195 2019 Mission Foods Australian Drone Nationals Australian FPV Association Inc.

16.01.2022 AUFPV are super proud to be supporting this years Team Australia heading to China in December. Team Australia 2019: Thomas Bitmatta Sam Heeps Granger Woolley Henry Corbell Nicole Merrick Team Manager: Rhett Mooney... It's no small feat getting 5 pilots and a manager over there and the expenses are not cheap. If you'd like to support Team Australia you can make a donation at the GoFundMe here. All donations are incredibly appreciated! #TeamAustralia #DroneRacing #AUFPV #MAAA #FAI

13.01.2022 Photos taken from the 2019 Mission Foods Australian Drone Nationals. Tag your friends! #DroneRacing #AustralianDroneNationals #AUFPV Michael Greves... Paul Bitmatta See more

11.01.2022 Team pits area is ready for the competition! #WDRC2019 #TeamAustralia

11.01.2022 Practise day is over here in Ningbo, China for the FAI - World Air Sports Federation World Drone Racing Championship 2019. The opening ceremony will be at 9:30AM local time today (12:30PM AEDT), being live streamed to millions worldwide. You can tune in to the FAI YouTube here: https://youtu.be/R-3k7r3Jw-Q Today the team will compete in three qualifying rounds in order to make the Top 64 pilots worldwide that will compete in elimination rounds tomorrow. ... The schedule for the live streaming of the event can be found at - https://faidroneworld.aero/where-when All other info at - https://faidroneworld.aero Good luck to our team! Thomas Bitmatta, Sam Heeps, Granger Woolley, Henry Corbell and Nicole Merrick. Along with our team manager Rhett Mooney, and our dedicated family of helpers Paul Bitmatta, Cathy Bibby, Scott Woolley, and Nick Willard. Let’s go Team Australia! #WDRC2019

10.01.2022 3 more days til the action commences! We are tingling with warm and fuzzy excitement. This event would not be possible without the incredible support we have re...ceived from our event sponsors for 2019. With the Nationals heading to Canberra this year we're delighted to have the support of the ACT Aeromodellers Association, the state body of the Model Aeronautical Association Australia (MAAA). The MAAA and state bodies do all sorts of very important work behind the scenes to ensure that model aircraft hobbyists and competitors (in our case drones!) are represented and have a voice in the larger community. They work with organisations such as CASA to ensure we can continue doing what we love doing. Not only that, they support the community with grants and funding, equipment loans, and much much more for local clubs and organisations. Learn more about our national and state model aeronautical associations: http://www.actaa.net.au/ https://maaa.asn.au/ 2019 Mission Foods Australian Drone Nationals Australian FPV Association Inc. #AustralianDroneNationals #AUFPV #DroneRacing #ACTAA #MAAA

08.01.2022 Some initial layout began today, with the full setup occuring tomorrow, and we're just 2 more sleeps until we kick off the 2019 Mission Foods Australian Drone N...ationals !!!!! This event would not be possible without the incredible support we have received from our event sponsors for 2019. XTEK LTD is the market leader in high-quality security products to protect and sustain the Defence Forces, Police Forces and other Government Agencies. This year we're incredibly grateful to have a high-tech and innovative company such as XTEK supporting the event has a Gold Sponsor. Make sure to check out the XTEK display stall at the event to catch a glimpse of some of the cool tech they'll be showing off! https://www.xtek.net/ 2019 Mission Foods Australian Drone Nationals Australian FPV Association Inc. #AustralianDroneNationals #AUFPV #DroneRacing #XTEK

04.01.2022 Less than a week left (6 days!) until the best 100 pilots from all around Australia and New Zealand take to the skies in #Canberra. This event would not be poss...ible without the incredible support we have received from our event sponsors for 2019. The Australian Defence Force have supported drone racing in so many different ways as the sport has grown in the last few years. They are one of, if not the most effective at promoting the hobby and sport in Australia in a positive and engaging way. From races at the Avalon International Airshow, the upcoming Edinburgh Airshow and a plethora of STEM focused workshops and conventions, the list goes on! There’s an unending number of great people doing amazing things for drone racing within the Defence Forces. Hats off to LTCOL Keirin Joyce, the UASEvents crew, the Australian Army Drone Racing Team, and the Royal Australian Air Force Drone Racing Team among many others. Top drone racers from the military will be giving it a crack next week at the Nationals! https://www.defencejobs.gov.au/ Defence Jobs Australia 2019 Mission Foods Australian Drone Nationals Australian FPV Association Inc. #AustralianDroneNationals #AUFPV #DroneRacing #AustralianDefenceForce #DefenceJobsAustralia

03.01.2022 A massive congratulations to our 2019 FREESTYLE CHAMPION! Heath Whibley - 'Croble FPV' 2019 Mission Foods Australian Drone Nationals... Australian FPV Association Inc. #AustralianDroneNationals #AUFPV

03.01.2022 Final Results, Racing - Places 1st to 6th 2019 Mission Foods Australian Drone Nationals A massive congratulations to our 2019 Champion!... 1st: Thomas 'BMSThomas' Bitmatta And the rest of our Finalists 2nd: Michael 'fpvdoug' Douglas 3rd: Granger 'GrangerKEK' Woolley 4th: Sam 'Heepsy' Heeps 5th: Jaxon 'Gang Gang' Paraki-Webber 6th: Terrence 'T' Byron Australian FPV Association Inc. Mission Foods AU XTEK LTD Nextfpv Criterion Solutions Model Aeronautical Association Australia ACT Aeromodellers Association Civil Aviation Safety Authority - CASA Defence Jobs Australia Lethalfpv Rising Sun FPV Buzz FPV

02.01.2022 Final Results, Racing - Places 7th to 12th 2019 Mission Foods Australian Drone Nationals 7th: Dan 'uewepuep' Vogel... 8th: Henry 'justhappytobehere' Corbell 9th: Luke 'Tilted' Godeassi 10th: Noah 'RoadBlock Connolly 11th: Lee 'BONES' Stevenson 12th: Kyle 'KMAC' McBride Congratulations! Australian FPV Association Inc. Mission Foods AU XTEK LTD Nextfpv Criterion Solutions Model Aeronautical Association Australia ACT Aeromodellers Association Civil Aviation Safety Authority - CASA Defence Jobs Australia Lethalfpv Rising Sun FPV Buzz FPV

02.01.2022 WATCH || Congratulations to the #AusArmy Drone Racers who competed in the Drone Racing National Championships over the weekend. There was a buzz in the air with nearly 100 Drone Racers battling for the title of Australian National Champion. #GoodSoldiering

01.01.2022 For the 3rd time in 4 years, our 2019 RACING CHAMPION Thomas Bitmatta - 'BMSThomas' Showing dominance all weekend and rarely ever making a mistake, not only tak...ing out the most prestigious title in the country but also taking 2nd place in Freestyle, put your hands together for this legend of drone racing! 2019 Mission Foods Australian Drone Nationals Australian FPV Association Inc. #AustralianDroneNationals #AUFPV Paul Bitmatta