Australian Drone Nationals 2026 Qualifying Track Now Live on VelociDrone

The Australian FPV Association dropped the 2026 Mission Foods Australian Drone Nationals qualifying track on VelociDrone on March 9, and the person who built it isn't just any course designer: it's the reigning national champion, known only as Wilf.

AUFPV confirmed the track's release on its official site with a pointed message for the field: "The Australian Drone Nationals Qualifying Series is back for 2026! A track designed by reigning Champion – Wilf. Clubs and Individuals are set to grind in." That word, grind, is doing real work here. Qualifying tracks designed by active champions tend to reflect exactly the kind of technical demands that separate contenders from pretenders.

Pilots and clubs searching for the course inside VelociDrone should look for the exact name "2026 AU Nationals Qualifier." That's the string to enter in the platform's search function to pull up the official track.

The scale of this year's layout is worth noting. AUFPV's social channels described it as "The biggest qualifying track we have," a superlative that sets a clear expectation for anyone planning their sim hours. No gate counts or course length figures were published alongside the announcement, but the language signals this isn't a compact sprint circuit. Pilots stacking reps will need to budget accordingly.

The 2026 qualifying series marks a return to form for the national program. The structure of clubs and individuals grinding through a shared sim track before competing for national honors is a format that builds genuine ranking integrity: everyone flies the same course, under the same conditions, on the same platform. What Wilf has produced as the reigning champion is effectively a self-imposed gauntlet, a track built by the person everyone else is chasing.

For historical context, the 2022 Mission Foods Australian Nationals qualifying series used a similar VelociDrone-based approach, with that year's Nationals returning to Canberra. No venue has been announced yet for the 2026 finals.

The qualifying series is now open. The benchmark has been set by the champion. Everyone else has until the sim lobby closes to close the gap.