Aerial deathrace

[Gilly]

Why not do it as per rallying and have stages:
stage 1: manston to hawkinge
stage 2: hawkinge to Canterbury etc
that way you can still have your guns but you then have a staging point for re-assembly ready for the next stage?
Just a thought...

[haitch40]

yes i like the idea but include guns but if ur shot down or bail out you are classed as retired

[stealth finger]

we could race throgh beggars canyon and score some womp rats with our t-21's.

Seriously though does il2 have any decent "tracks" theres a perfect map in over g with its own version of beggars canyon we race down all the time. Haven't really seen anything syuitable in il2

[winny]

There's gotta be a course around dover.. Radar station, harbour entrance, dover castle, the cliffs.. All easily findable.

But without putting people down on the ground at the turning points it'd be wide open to abuse.

Personally I'm up for any kind of non combat flying across any of the modes.

[Pudgy (V)]

Why not play it in Capture Airfields with two airfields. The race would be whoever takes off from one and lands at the other the fastest.

[kozzm0]

You can actually fly pretty far off the map, and it will scroll along. It's possible to race at least 100 miles probably.

I once took a me262 and flew it to France from Dover. The terrain was all there, exactly modeled and everything. It finally repointed my plane back towards Britain just as I was about to cross the coastline.

Stalingrad is another good one you can fly all over the place, and best of all the cities are all clearly marked on the map, so you could designate cities in the northeast, southeast, etc as waypoints. Better yet, use gumrak airfield as a pit stop, where you have to land there, stop and takeoff again after each lap, with a 1 minute penalty for any crash. The british airfields are too easy, no haystacks.

[haitch40]

i have a good idea

do a 21 lap cicuit of kent (2 lap race thought id leave it up though to make you laugh)
dover to manston manston to canterbury canterbury to dover 2 lap race


and split it into classes

jets
fast prop planes (spit xiv la's,yaks, 109g10/k4)
med prop planes (spit II and IX, 109s up to g6, p47)
slow prop planes (hurri, il2, i16, i 153)
bombers
b17 only (this would be good)
and a po2 race

[trk29]

Yes this would be fun, but without guns.

[dkwookie]

Been thinking about guns and after watching the biatholon in the olympics I think it would be cool to run a race without guns then have a dogfight or bombing contest at the end. Would need an umpire to judge bombing acuracy I reckon.
Also gilly has a very nice trench run worked out round the Berlin rivers. Lots of bridges and building lined stretches

[Gilly]

Well if you did it in strike you could use the targets as marker posts, out to the ships then north to first set and so on. Agree you need some sort of ref to adjudicate though or even 2 or 3 set around the track.
Winter in Stalingrad was my other thought as you could use the frozen river as a good starting point and then race off down the tributries even under bridges which could be used as marker points?