A400 shows as selectable in the Filter - none to be bought and no missions for it

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: A400 is selectable in the filters but you can’t buy one in Cargo and there are NO missions for it.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?
always

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

  1. select the mission world map

  2. select the filters for Aircraft - where all options are available to select - select the A400

  3. Not 1 single mission shows up

  4. possibly due to the fact that you cannot “buy” one in Cargo companies?

  5. Question remains as to why uyou can select it without one being visible in Career mode

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.

What peripherals are you using: Hotas4 mouse controller keyboard

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? no

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use? PS5 pro

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?

MEDIA



What is your overall Career rank at the moment?

In beta im assuming it’s great :+1:. Have not looked in beta.

The A400M is not meant to be buyable, so that’s not technically a bug. The missions for which it does populate (I believe) only do so once your character is a rank of S, though even then their generation seems limited (by what, I’m not sure, nor am I sure if that’s intentional or a bug).

A400 has been in the filters list since at least Sim Update 4’s release (Same with the C-17) Both aircraft are only available for Remote Cargo Operation Missions which are limited time missions under the employee tab.

Hope eventually the A400 & C17 are going to be aircraft we can buy at some point!

Image below from April with the A400 in the bottom of the filter list:

Moved to Bug Reporting Hub > User Interface & Activities from Sim Update 6 Beta | MSFS 2024 > User Interface & Activities as post above shows an image from April with the A400 in the bottom of the filter list, so neither a new bug or regression in SU6.

These need to be buyable are the devs aware that they are not? is this a bug or design choice? Surely these are made for heavy cargo ops also

I have no idea. If it’s not a bug, the topic will be tagged as by-design at some point.

I hope the A400 is ‘buyable’ at some point. Whats the purpose of only doing a few missions now and then. If it can already fly in career, let us buy it please and make more missions for it readily available all over the world.

They are not buyable because the SDK defines them as military, and military aircraft are incompatible with the Cargo company specializations. The third party Transall is not flagged as military by its developer which is why it is compatible where these are not.

That explains it, thanks.
However, at the flick of an SDK, Ini/Asobo could change it to a Cargo transporter for the military.
After all the Transall drops military cargo and para’s.

Yep, but it also has civilian roles - not sure the A400 or C17 do as well. I think most of the community would be interested in them opening up an additional Military Cargo company (or maybe just specialization within the existing one).