It is possible to get missions in Career Mode that are impossible to replicate with the Flight Planner. This seems to be because there are airports that exist in Career Mode but are absent from the online Flight Planner.
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?
Every time, depending on the airport.
REPRODUCTION STEPS
Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:
Load Career Mode and look for missions in various areas. For example, in South Korea and the DPRK.
Find a mission you’d like to fly, then try to recreate it in the Flight Planner because you’d rather use its robust interface instead of the in-game EFB.
Discover an airport that is impossible to find in the Flight Planner
Here is a list of airports I’ve found so far that exist in Career Mode but not in the Flight Planner:
It’s strange because the “small or military airport” exclusion isn’t universal. For example, I’m in Colorado, USA and I checked some very small airports in the mountains and they are in both Career Mode and the Flight Planner. I thought at first the Flight Planner only includes airports that have procedures, but that’s not the case. It’s hit or miss.
Agree there should not be discrepancies between the airport proposed in a mission and the availability in the flight planner.
Just I checked 3 of the airport in your list and there are available in the EFB (did not check all the list):
Can you see them in the flight planner? This is where the discrepency lies. The EFB has it because it is a pre-determined route for a mission. Inevitably, either the departure or arrival airport, for the unmaned or military airports are not represented in the FP ..So it becomes very difficult to predict where the restriced zones are. I am, or rather used to before I stopped using that mode due to maintenace costs, have to plan a route to a nearest airport to get the general gist of the route. SU1 and 2 and 3!
Don’t see them neither. Could you update the title/description to make it clear your are referring to the online flight planner and not the insim one included in the EFB ?
Description of the issue: The online flight planner includes airports that the simulator does not. 79WA RNR Farms is available in the planner, the simulator does not have it.
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)? Every time I plan a flight from 79WA
REPRODUCTION STEPS
Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:
Open browser based flight planner, search for 79WA
Open the simulator and search for RNR Farms or 79WA
Notice the sim does not have it. It’s the only discrepancy I’ve found but maybe a thread to note others as users find them would be helpful?
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:
[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?
[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?
[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?
[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
MEDIA
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I’m seeing a 79WA Grigg Farm, Quincy when I entered it into the arrival box and the search box. Not sure if that’s the one you’re looking for.
Regards
OP created that report after having identified some airport into the sim that don’t exist in the web-based flight planner what prevents its usage to prepare a mission. Discrepancies should not exist between both planners, title has been updated accordingly so that it covers both ways.
