And makes sense for an airport that offers flight training. The right-hand pattern thing concerns me. I noticed in world hub that zero runways were designated right traffic, when many should have been. I wonder if it’s something we’re going to have to fix manually in 2024 as well. Either way, the voice and indicators not being on the same page is concerning, and could lead to a lot of frustration. Hopefully they can squash that bug by final release.
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I agree. I do hope we aren’t looking at another massive community push to address these issues.
My immediate thought was, “This reminds me of the way that the taxi ribbon in 2020 will so often direct you to turn the opposite direction of the runway’s heading when stopped at the hold short line.”
It felt familiar, ha!
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Did you see a way to restart a career or do you think we are likely to be stuck with it until it’s over?
It could be just that it’s an alpha, but I hope that a restart will be possible in the final version.
Even if it’s just to avoid tech support having to get involved if a player gets into an unintended dead end.
I’ll look again, but I thought there was some function within the EFB. I saw some sort of reset, but I was on full input overload last night! I’m not sure what it was for.
I’ll check it out thanks.
I can’t get into career mode. Every time I try the sim crashes.
I cannot check this for you, since I’ve already selected my home airport and my career as been initiated.
I don’t know how this looks IRL, but I’m seriously impressed with that athletic field!
We are different people with different expectations and desires, however I can tell you this was highly assisted. Well, at least the single introductory flight that I could do was. The exam wasn’t as assisted, but it was still there. There were assistants for the one mission I flew, too.
Even in Free Flight all the walkaround checks on the aircraft have toggleable blue dots to indicate where you need to check, remove covers/chocks, etc. When you move an aileron, for example, through its full range of motion the blue dot changes to a green check.
There were text boxes in the corner of the screen for controls tutorials, there are floating objective marker waypoints in the sky for the traffic pattern, there are the big bracket/rectangles to completely guide your flight path, etc.
On the introductory flight, the instructor even managed the rudder during takeoff.
Rest assured, it can be easy as pie and it makes a massive amount of sense that it be this way. Like I said, they don’t want to alienate and make people miserable. I’d like a way to set it to be harder. I even have all the assistance turned off in the main options, but I think the lessons might override them.
It’s going to be fun, I feel pretty confident your trepidations will be relieved.
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Click on your profile picture in the top right of the screen, then down at the bottom left you’ll see a Reset Career choice:
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Thanks for taking the time to respond with these details. Yeah I’m optimistic and looking forward to it.
Thanks again !
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Many thanks for that.
I’m not sure I would have found it there. Not if I was looking for it at least. 
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For those who have mentioned concerns re: weather and testing/missions/etc. there is this:
Which is located directly above the EFB and Accept Mission buttons on a mission briefing screen.
And then there are prompts like these throughout the missions:
Note: you can ignore them and do a traditional C&D startup, too. I believe your score is compromised if you use the skip function.
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100%. A Difficulty slider would be a great feature for those who want to earn a bit more Rep/Credits.
I’d be happy with a Neofly or FSAcademy level of difficulty and detail to the Career.
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Are there visible passengers from inside? In career and free flight?
In career yes but freeflight no
@NixonRedgrave can you check one more item if time allows please? or anyone.
curious if Pearl Harbor is real water now, or still a poor looking orthophoto you can land a 737 on.
thanks
I feel badly posting this, because it is quite clear this is highly unfinished. Ford Island’s runway was ungroomed dirt as I rolled down it and the harbor is totally unrendered.
The upcoming sim shouldn’t be judged by this alpha version:
Thanks for checking. And yeah I agree. Such a revered place, let alone just environmentally incorrect, how can they miss this.
This is so not finished. This CANNOT be what will ship in Nov.
Try to have some grace until we see the final product.
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Time will tell. Hopefully not
I know that it’s a tech alpha…but I found quite “immersion killing” the errors I’ve encountered for the 1st mission.
A discovery tour around a city, and during the flight, the name of the city in the marker was wrong. Have to take Marc and his wife for the tour, and I saw 2 women coming.
The earning was 4.210 cr less employer fee (4.210 cr)…so I earned 110 cr…
I was excited by the career mode…but now it looks to me a bit gamey.