Now the gate affix / bonus would would be at least useful for AB race creations because for strange or certain reasons (which only the DEVs know) after each checkpoint I always can receive a certain percentage of nitrous.
But this wasn't even mentioned in the latest patch notes of March '24 where the AB & the AR planes as well as the helicopter were implemented in the race creator game mode.

So currently I'm testing which affix / bonus is triggering the AB race creation checkpoints as perfect gates to earn bonus nitrous in my AB race creations which around 10 or 12 checkpoints per lap and 2 laps in total.

the drag bump affix, if i remember correctly, does help in slipstreaming for HC. However, people tend to mostly use the nitro power and refill speed affix for HC, because the bump affixes are most useful in drag races.
If i remember correctly, the nitro would refil fast enough if you just tap if every second or two, so that "periodical nitro" is better at getting ahead than slipstream affixes are.

And i don't think Aerobatic planes ever had the gate affixes, because they'd never be used in races anyways.

2 question @MrFunreal:

1. Do you maybe still remember if the drag bump affix / bonus is maybe suitable to increase the speed limiter of any HC while getting a single, double or tribble slipstreaming support for example for any of our HCs?

2. Do you also maybe remember if the gate affix / bonus was ever available for our AB planes?

I think each plane weren't changed with their overall peformances and statistics, at least nothing was mentioned in the last TC 2 march patch notes.

Anyway I still want to stay with TC 2 for certain while because of the race creator game mode which is available for every each of our 623 vehicles since March of this year - incl. for each AB, AR plane and even for the helicopter!

Maybe somewhere in the future TCM will have a much better 3D based race creator game mode too - where we can build up races with at least some ramps and / or platforms which we can build up to the sky.

In addition thank you several much for creating this spreasheet with the big support of all the other players which made a bunch of pro settings test.

since "Motorfest" dropped, the people in the discord server barely submitted tunes for TC2. If the handling changed in the last update, then the tunes for the planes will all be off, and useless.
But i have not tested if that is the case myself, because i have not been playing TC2 that much myself anymore.

Are the pro settings for each published AB plane and AR plane still up to date, even with the latest major content update which was published back in March '24?

Btw. sadly this guide doesn't contain at least 1 setup with improved pro settings for the AR version of the Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing (build year - 1945) - AR plane version.
I'm almost sure that we cannot use the same pro settings from the AB plane version for the AR plane version of this plane model.

nice

ah my bad did not see the car name on top. also it is the only car i dont have LOL. Thank you for your answer.

its a list of tunes for various cars which only work for those respective cars.

this work for all cars ?