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|                            Las Venturas Races (Air)                (000R0) |
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The races are triggered by completing driving school, you'll get a phone call 
about races and from that point there are checkered flag icons on the map.  
This particular one is located just inside the Las Venturas airport.  

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|  _ --------o-------\                     World War Ace                     |
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The vehicle you are given for this mission is a Rustler.  This is a nice 
relaxing trip around the city that gives you a nice chance to take in some of 
the sights.  none of the coronas are designed so that they positioned in 
difficult areas so as long as you stick to common sense and make good use of 
your map you should be able to get all of them.  Make sure you work on 
climbing up at the beginning because they get steadily higher as you go and 
sometimes it's hard to keep up, the Rustler isn't always happy going higher.

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|  _ --------o-------\                      Barnstorming                     |
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The vehicle you are given for this mission is a Stuntplane.  What you have 
here is about the polar opposite of the one you just did, if you were unhappy 
with the lack of control you had with that thing you'll love launching 
yourself in pretty much any direction you press with this thing, and it has 
absolutely no problem climbing higher.  Honestly you need to be gentle with it 
because once you start going a little out of control, trying to jam it back 
and forth to compensate is only going to make things worse.  The first part of 
the course is pretty simple but it does eventually get to the point where 
you're avoiding treetops and flying under things... like bridges so use the 
nice relaxing trip at the start to get used to the transition from that plane 
to this plane, there's a steep learning curve here but I'm sure you'll manage.

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|  _ --------o-------\                    Military Service                   |
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The vehicle you are given for this mission is a Hydra.  Fly this Military Jet 
all over the freakin' world.  Start by pointing your boosters backward and 
take off like a normal plane.  In theory I guess you could set the boosters to 
point down and have a nice relaxing ten mile flight that won't be over for 
another decade, but where's the fun in that.  Don't go crazy however, hit each 
corona straight on so that you're best prepared for the next one.  Avoiding 
flying over military bases which is actually a common problem with this 
missions, there's one just next to your airstrip so be sure to avoid that area 
at all costs.  Other than that, it's just a long long flight that will 
actually seem to go by quicker than you expect... considering the speed.

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|  _ --------o-------\                   Chopper Checkpoint                  |
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The vehicle you are given for this mission is a Maverick.  We've switched from 
planes to helicopters now, and this acts as the introductory checkpoint 
mission.  Remember that the helicopter can manoeuvre much easier than the 
plane can so in many circumstances it's just easier to go around than through, 
take the bridge for example.  Basically you've just got a bunch of checkpoints 
spread around and there really aren't a lot of ways to fail this mission.  
Watch out for the military base as usual, but there's no reason for you to be 
that far out of your way anyway, follow the checkpoints and you'll avoid it.

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|  _ --------o-------\                  Whirly Bird Waypoint                 |
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The vehicle you are given for this mission is a Maverick.  Basically take what 
you just did and put it in a suburban setting, where they don't hesitate to 
set the coronas in claustrophobic places like between two buildings on a 
crowded city street.  Despite the short distance it's going to take you a long 
time.  Just be very careful and remember that your helicopter blades and 
rather fragile, keep them away from solid objects at all times and utilize the 
X and square buttons to rise and descend quickly.  Fortunately after getting 
those rather difficult markers early on the last third of the mission of so 
actually takes place on the outskirts where hitting each corona is extremely 
easy, the other nice thing is that flying the helicopter down the streets 
between the buildings give you quite a spectacular view of the city.

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|  _ --------o-------\                      Heli Hell                        |
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The vehicle you are given for this mission is a Hunter.  This military 
helicopter will give you the advantage you'll need in order to get to some of 
the tight spots scattered around the city.  You'll find it very similar to the 
last mission except that it asks you to go into a few tight squeezes that you 
probably would never have willingly gone yourself otherwise.  Oh well, the 
helicopter can take a LOT of punishment which is quite fortunate, don't be 
surprised if you find those blades scraping a lot of highway overpasses.