I am writing this because it was not obvious to me, and I only found a couple comments regarding the solution. What happened to me was the same that happened to many others, but basically I got all the required certs to be an airline pilot and was working on the final cert. While completing my 15 required “A rating” passenger missions and leveling up to level 50 the only airline mission I had on the map disappeared. It was there when I started grinding out the A rating missions but I did not do it yet because I still was working on my passenger airline certification. Once I finished the passenger airline certification, I went back to complete the VIP mission, and it was gone. I had no idea why and it was very frustrating. Eventually I found that during one of the A rating missions, where I had encountered one of the bugs that gives you incorrect demerits, it had actually knocked my reputation all the way from an S down to a C. This made missions disappear apparently. As I slowly was able to earn back a B, the tornado mission re-appeared. Then when I got back up to an A rating the VIP airline mission in California re-appeared. I hope the bugs are fixed with that mission because I am excited to try it, I will post updates if I find any that are useful. msfs-2024
Whelp apparently none of that matters because the mission will crash no matter what. It first froze during the pushback and startup process, then when I tried to skip to taxi the next time it said that my airplane had crashed and then froze. When I started the game back up the mission was no longer on the map… This is fun…
Yep - I was offered the VIP - Airliner mission, it loads up I press shift-c to enter the plane, the irritating guy tells me how important the passenger is and then I get the Mission Failed message without even pressing a button. It knocks my reputation from an S to an A and the mission has now disappeared. I think that’s me done with the whole career mode thing. I’ll wait for a third party to bring out a decent career product that lets me use quality planes (3rd party) between airports that I’ve paid for decent scenery. MSFS career mode is just a bug ridden, half baked attempt and not worth the effort.
Yeah it is really bad. I am a glutton for punishment though. I keep going back. For every 3 failed flights I get one that goes flawlessly and that keeps me coming back I guess. It is very nice when you can complete an airline flight on 100% autopilot, including the landing pretty much. I have had a few go like that. But most of them fail me when trying to taxi or skip taxi or skip to shutdown etc. Also I have been having a ton of issues with the mission steps not registering or ATC ordering me to stay at like 35k ft until I am RIGHT above the airport, making a legit decent impossible. Its bad, and I hope it gets better soon becaues I too am getting burnt out on the bugs.
Thought I’d go back into this mission and give it one more go before I subscribe to On-Air. Still doesn’t work. Go into the flight, Shift-C to enter the cockpit and it gives you the jabber about Mrs whoever and how important she is then flight exits telling me that I failed because I “left the parking stand before completing the ground handling process”. I hadn’t even pressed a button since getting in the cockpit.
That is very annoying. I ended up abandoning the VIP stuff and focused on getting all I need to do regular airline missions and got proficient with those. I have had several successful flights now with auto pilot doing most of the work. There are still some missions that fail me like this one when I try to skip to a step or something like that, but most have some kind of work around like just restarting the mission and then the bug does not happen again. The VIP stuff is a lost cause for me at this time, I am making 100k per flight as a employee so no harm no foul when I forget to come back to the console during my decent and the plane lands itself! HAHA. That happened a couple times.