FAI sets Belgium e-Drone Cup for July 12 simulator showdown
FAI will stage the Belgium e-Drone Cup in the EreaDrone simulator on July 12, with registration open until July 11 and the race tied to Florennes' live World Cup course.
FAI has set the Belgium e-Drone Cup for Sunday, July 12 at 12:00 UTC inside the EreaDrone simulator, turning the Florennes World Cup course into a race pilots can attack from home. The virtual track is being built from the same layout used for the live 2026 FAI Belgium Drone Racing World Cup stop in Florennes, which is scheduled for June 27-28.
The timing gives the event more than a standalone online feel. FAI lists registration from Monday, May 11, 00:00 UTC through Saturday, July 11, 23:59 UTC, with qualification running from July 3 through July 11 before the July 12 final. In FAI’s setup, remote pilots can compete with a game controller on a Windows computer and a stable internet connection, a format the federation introduced in 2024 as part of its annual e-Drone Racing World Cup.
Belgium is the third stop in the 2026 e-Drone season, which FAI says will include seven events. The season winner takes the e-Drone Racing World Cup champion title, while the top three in the ranking receive CIAM medals and diplomas. That makes the Belgium race more than a novelty stream: it is one leg in a points race that carries official World Cup hardware at the end of the year.
The simulator stop also arrives inside a broader 2026 drone-racing calendar that FAI says includes 15 World Cup competitions from 13 countries. The Belgian World Cup weekend in Florennes is being co-hosted by the Belgian Army and DRB - Drone Racing Belgium, and organizers say it will be staged during the biggest air show in Belgium. They also call it the first international F9U drone racing competition of this scale ever held in Belgium, with an Open Belgian F9U event running alongside the official FAI race.
That live race and the simulator version now form a paired test case for the same track and the same branding. FAI has also set livestream coverage on its own channels and EreaDrone’s, signaling that the federation is treating the Belgium e-Drone Cup as part of the same competitive ecosystem as Florennes itself, not as a side event attached to the calendar.
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