I am really excited about the upcoming return of the Red Bull Air Races. Actually this was one of the main driving factors for me to buy the new sim, although i’d be lying if i said it was the only one.
The recent dev stream brought up that topic and had me worry a little:
It was said that these RB Air Races shall be part of the “Challenges” as well, which in theory sounds great, until you remember that these “Activities” are air start only.
I really wish for the Red Bull Air Races to be (snippets of) full events:
Make us startup, taxi and take off at assigned time / on Race Control’s command.
Once airborne, make us be in starting position at a given time and wait for race control to tell us it’s go time. Then make us follow all the rules: smoke on, max speed, max G, wings level at double gates etc.. Finally, make us land and taxi to parking.
Also, i’d obviously love some proper Air Race scenery and “official” courses, but given you’re working with Red Bull on that one i have high hopes already.
Maybe even implement the Air Races in career mode, that would be the dream obviously.
I don’t mind having air starts for the “Activities” tab in addition to what i wrote above, but PLEASE also give us the ability to be fully immersed in the events, living as virtual air race pilots so to speak.
Fingers crossed, i’m looking forward for what you’re cooking up for sure.