Aircraft Racing, a new idea of mine...

[lasersailor184]

So, I was recently thinking, wouldn't it be fun to put together an Aircraft Racing circuit?  I think it would be a blast to race through some of the canyons, and I figured out how to do it also.


1.) The starts will just be like a sailboat start.  Everyone is behind the line and is given a 3 minute warning til the start of the race.  You jockey around (collisions would be on) and try to set up the perfect start.  If you are over the line early you must go back around and recross.  Then the race begins.

2.) The race would be held in the canyons on the DA unless someone else has a better place.  You are not allowed to fly above the canyon walls.  Doing so you get disqualified.

3.) At the end there will be a finish line, first to cross wins.

Of course, this would have to be player run and broken up into different plane sets.

[zmeg]

Been done long ago.

[sullie363]

Go to the H2H arenas, they do it all the time.  You have to fly through hangers instead of pylons.  At least air races used to be done, been awhile since I've been on H2H.

[Ghosth]

We did a squadron p51 race not too long ago. Same terrain thats always loaded in the TA.

Take off from A1, pick your own route north to 43, must go around the outside of the radar tower, below the top of it. (Yes it was enemy field & ack was on).

From there its down the shoreline to 22, same turn there.  (watch the ack again)

Back to A1, but here it gets tough. Do you take the low valley that swings way north?
Do you go up & over the mountain & risk having too much speed for landing? Not to mention its going to slow you down a lot.

Well to make a long story short, I found a different route for the first leg. One that sloped slowly, came diving in & was in 2nd place out of 20 at the first turn.

Closed to 500 yards, but no more with my squadmate in the lead. Neck & neck we ran down the shore, screamed around 22 and headed for home. I headed a smidgeon higher up the hill than he did, and he started pulling away.


Was still within 1k when we had the field in sight, I chopped throttle early, flaps, sideslipped, and set it down fast and smooth.

(Needed to have a good landing to win)

He overshot, came back around & skidded to a stop and we both exited at the exact same moment.

Problem was he had one wheel off & got a ditch, I was in middle of runway with perfect landing and won.

Toughest, heart pounding, teeth rattling race I've ever flown.

So, wanne race? Look me up sometime when I'm in the TA. I'll give ya a taste!

[lasersailor184]

Well, I was just thinking it would be fun if we just got a big circuit going.



But my squad often does Me163 races in the canyons of the DA.  You have to be as low as possible.  It's so much fun.  Turn on a black out, straighten out, quickly see what to do next, turn on another black out.  Rinse Repeat.

[tactic]

sounds like kick arse fun hehe!.  never thought about doing that.  I'm gunna bring this up to my squad broz see if they wana race.  lmao!!!  something like the old pizza map with all the canyons would be fun too.  cool!!  fun stuff!!  lmao!