ALL Freelance Missions Crash: Error Code 308-400-00209

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Exactly the same issue at each time !

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This problem occurs every time I fly in career mode in my cargo company. So I can’t make any money with my cargo company anymore.

I fly a cesna 172 skyhawk.

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not work for me. It’s the same thing at each time.

I have also experienced this error multiple times in career mode missions (+10). In my case, while flying the Cargo Caravan in long flights, often shortly before or after landing. These flights usually are about 5 hours long, I have used simulation speed up. It is pretty frustrating after a few hours of flying to come out empty handed. I wish there is a fix for this soon, I understand why many people are frustrated with the career mode, but I am a hard core simmer and love the new career mode despite all this.


same again for me this night :frowning: at 0h16

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Error code appeared 16:50 today, cessna 152 at cruise, received slightly different error code last night around 00:15 308-400-00207.

Today is 08 Ian 2025, i made 4 flights with the 172 in career mode, al eneded with “unexpected error” 2 of them had SIM RATE, 2 of them didn’t, between flights i restarted the computer, the la error screen looks like this:

i lost 7 hours in real time, ain’t gonna happen again.

Some issue here. Every freelance mission crashes with this error. Career is unplayable this way.

a. Don’nt touch the “repair and refuel” function!
b. If needed, bye fuel before starting the mission.
If you do so, there will be no crashes any more.
good luck

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• same issue however it happens on most missions.

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has no impact. It happens to me with or without refueling. Rather seems time based. Around midnight its 99% likely it will crash with this error.

i was an idiot and used repair and refuel not the refuel bind self. induced pain lol

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Refuel, Repair Bind 100% was my issue too.

Moderators, if you are able to send word, a better, more descriptive error message for error 308-400-00209 would be appreciated.

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it? Yes. Now every time!
• The steps to reproduce this are: Career mode/Freelance/any mission!

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• PC/Steam: Happens irrespective of 00:00 UTC, or whether ‘Repair and Refuel’ done (or not)

Does not happen to me when I select ‘Employee’ missions.
Peripherals: Thrustmaster Boeing Yoke and thrust quadrant; Thrustmaster Rudder pedals.
Spec: Ryzen 9 7950X3D
64Gb RAM
16Gb NVidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super
3 x SSD drives (500Gb, 1Tb, 1Tb)

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• Exactly the same as those already posted.

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• I have it every single time when flying as freelancer (c172) and employee also when flying c172 and DA62, but not DHC-2!!!

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• CPU i7 9700K
GPU 2060 super
RAM 32GB

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Within the first few minutes of every flightseeing mission I am experiencing the following “Unexpected error code: 308-400-00209.” Yesterday these worked fine.
Community folder is empty, no dev mode.

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Every Flightseeing Mission regardless of location

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  1. Fly any flightseeing mission
  2. Trust Asobo to ruin the good name of MSFS
  3. Test before launching

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Windows 11
CPU: 4.4 GHz 16 Core/32Thread Ryzen Threadripper 2950X
GPU: NVIDIA 2080Ti RTX
RAM: 128GB DDR4
V-RAM: 11GB

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Landed after a 2 hour VIP mission. Was taxiing back to parking and got hit with about 10 consecutive “Engine Malfunction” warnings. Then got hit with this literally metres from the parking…

Local PC time: 15:30
Aircraft: Vision Jet

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• I had increased SIM rate, but was at normal rate when crash occured. Turning into final

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