Liftoff Maps and Tracks: 16 Environments, Three Modes

What does Liftoff actually include?

The official product page lists 16 high-quality environments alongside Free Flight, Race and Freestyle modes, plus track and race building tools and thousands of community-made tracks and drones. That mix matters for practice planning: you are not limited to the courses that shipped with the game, and you are not forced to race to use a scene.

The same page describes the simulator’s drone system as effectively unlimited in combination, which is why a route learned in one quad may feel different in another. Judge a map with the aircraft you intend to practice, not with the fastest build in the hangar.

How do the three modes change what a map is for?

• Free Flight is the reconnaissance mode. No gates, no timer — use it to find landmarks and a safe exit.
• Race turns a scene into a repeatable line with gates. It is the cheapest way to measure whether a change actually helped.
• Freestyle is where you practise control in open space and around structures, which is closer to how most pilots use a scene.

Pick the mode that matches the objective. Racing a freestyle line gives you a score that means nothing; free-flying a race course teaches you nothing about gates.

Should you build your own track?

Yes, if you have a specific weakness. The track and race building tools let you place a gate sequence that isolates one problem: a tight left-right switch, a long descending turn, or a gate that requires a controlled approach rather than a dive. A custom track removes the excuse that “the map doesn’t have that”.

Keep the first build simple. Two gates and one turn, flown ten times, teaches more than a fifteen-gate course you crash through once.

How do you learn a new environment quickly?

1. Fly one slow reconnaissance lap and name three landmarks out loud — a tower, a gap, a colour change in the ground.
2. Choose one start point and one exit. Write them down.
3. Set a single objective for the session: hold a line, pass two gates, or complete one clean turn.
4. Repeat the same route until you can predict where the quad will be, then change one variable — speed, camera angle, or a tighter gate.

Before you start, confirm the controller is detected and calibrated. The controller setup guide covers that order, and Acro mode explained explains why a route feels different once self-levelling is off. The Liftoff simulator page records the sourced product facts, and the settings database keeps any profile tied to its simulator rather than floating free.

What should you not assume?

Map counts, community content and add-on availability change between releases, and the product page is the only place that should be treated as current. Do not assume a community track you saw in a video is still installed, and do not assume a scene from an add-on is included in the base game. Verify in-game before planning a session around a specific course.