Aerial Advertising, Always Takes Too Long To Pickup Banner Resulting in Low Score

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:

When doing an aerial advertising mission, if one is to follow the flight plan, or even abandon the flight plan loop around as fast as possible - it still is recorded as taking too long to pickup, and results in a poor score

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?

No mods

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  1. Start aerial advertising mission
  2. Takeoff and loop around to pickup the banner
  3. Get a bad score for taking too long to pickup the banner no matter how fast you were

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• And since the timing seems impossible to get right, it always results in a significant loss of reputation, causing me to avoid these missions entirely.

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I just gave it another try and scored 100% on banner retrieval time. Not sure if this is an anomaly or if they’ve fixed it. Might be worth another attempt.

I did skip the walkaround except pulling off the necessary covers and rushed through the startup procedures and my taxi out was probably just under the limit without getting a penalty. I also banked around right after takeoff and made a significantly short circuit to pick it up as soon as humanly possible. Also got it on the first try. But after all that, it worked. Terrible airmanship but I got the 100% so there’s that.