I headed for somewhere hopefully less windy. Inland Spain. So of course it’s a tiny runway. Thankfully there’s no penalty for deciding your approach isn’t quite right and flying out again to have another go.
Career mode is a bugfest. No VIP charter missions and no heavy cargo missions so far.
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Landed at a small airport for real yesterday. Taxied right across the hold short line without stopping and without telling anyone I was heading to the empty ramp. It was pretty great lol.
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For anyone that really hates the aviators warnings, I can recommend the firefighting missions.
Without the need for ATC, that appears to dramatically reduce the opportunities for the overly officious peeps to keep warning you. 
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I repeatedly see complaints that they are not being generated.
Is that not the case for you?
I always figured they were seasonal and it is not fire season up in the Northern Hemisphere.
It will be soon enough in california
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Pretty year round there…
Asobo seem to think it’s fire* season in Greenland at the moment.
*and cargo, vip transport, search and rescue, medevac etc…
I got three, for the first time I’ve had any in ages, in SE Australia today, but that looks like it might be the end of them for a while. Unless of course the woeful mission generation code is being fixed.
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Are any of these in the sim right now?
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection | CAL FIRE
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Depends, Quebec do not lent their firefighters and CL-415 year round to California
Had a weird cargo run today. Had to cross the US/Mexico border and fly into an abandoned airstrip that was marked as closed…
The rural private strip I took off from sees so little traffic I had to scare the deer off the runway:
Then some unusual procedures. The mission objective told me to immediately cancel my IFR flight plan. Then it said I should get below the higher terrain…
..and highlighted this button to disable my transponder.
Then I was told to stay below 200’ agl until 100 nm into Mexico. Weird, but ok. I think I picked up a few cactus spines:
Sure enough, there were X’s on the runway, but funny, the ramp was filled with aircraft:
But seriously, I was poking around the career mode and saw this airport come up, so I had to see what would happen. You can’t actually radio in before you arrive because the game says that there are no runways (it’s closed). The mission objective goes red when you land, but apparently it doesn’t count against you in the end, hence the ‘S’. I really did do most of the flight at about 200’ agl, while maneuvering and throttling over all kinds of terrain, and still got decentish scores in the other categories.
If you find some of these flights boring, I recommend cancelling IFR and just doing the whole thing VFR. Zipping around down low is a great way to tour the scenery. Since it’s not the most realistic, and there’s no other traffic anyway, you really don’t need IFR, unless you like getting the altimeter from Center 40 times.
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That was an awesome read!
Creativity rules!
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I hope you got a handsome payout for all that work.
In NeoFly these are called “Illicit” missions.
Did you notice if your cargo were large bags of a white powder substance?
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Really hope there’s a change to the complaints of banking too hard for medical missions, even in half bank mode I constantly get complaints that the plane is banking too much. It’s like these petulant children demand a 1/16 rate turn or else they whine “think of le preshus patient in agony”.
One of the bonuses for the mission was not looking in the bags, so I didn’t.
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But the rollercoaster ride of turbulence that throws anything not bolted down into all corners of the aircraft is A-OK!