Markus Feyerabend

Markus Feyerabend, born in 1971, is a German glider aerobatic pilot. He began gliding in 1987 at the club SFG Weilheim, now LSV Weilheim-Peißenberg, and flew cross-country competitions before obtaining his aerobatic rating in 2001. He has belonged to the German national glider aerobatics team since 2005 and was German national champion in 2006, 2008 and 2010. At the 2007 FAI World Championships he won the team silver medal alongside Olaf Schmidt and Eugen Schaal, and he placed second in the unknown sequences category at the 2007 World Championships and the 2008 European Glider Aerobatic Championships. In 2008 the German Aero Club ranked him first among German glider pilots in the unlimited category. He usually flies a Swift S-1 and works as a systems engineer in telecommunications.