Florian Bergér

Florian Bergér is a German aerobatic and air racing pilot, born in Eichstätt in 1989, who also works as a first officer for Lufthansa. He began flying gliders as a young man, took his aerobatic training at the flying school run by Red Bull Air Race champion Matthias Dolderer in Tannheim, and has competed for Germany internationally since 2014. At home he has been a five time Unlimited German Aerobatic Champion and a four time Freestyle German Aerobatic Champion, and he helped Germany to third place in the team event at the European Aerobatic Championships. In 2015 he joined the Red Bull Air Race as a Challenger class pilot, one of the youngest ever to fly in the series, and won the Challenger class in 2016, 2017 and 2019, taking race wins in Spielberg, at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz, in San Diego and in Budapest.