Career mode has copilots included in many of the larger aircraft but they seem currently limited to audio lines such as reporting fuel level, passing 10000 ft, and berating the pilot for flying 251+ kts below 10000 ft.
It would be helpful if we could designate the copilot as being responsible for ATC and potentially passenger communications to share the flight workload in a more realistic fashion as CRM is very important in multi-crew operations. This is already an option in free flight mode but the assistance setting is disabled in career mode.
Smaller planes without an assigned copilot such as the Cessna 172 could remain as is with the setting permanently disabled.
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Agreed! I was like « what?? I need to answer ATC?? ».
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Agreed.
Copilot are mainly here for this, aren’t they 
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Also a number of cases in airline transport missions where you as the captain are making announcements typically made by flight attendants like telling people to put on their seatbelts and stow the tray tables.
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but the FO sits in right chair not to hold hands whole time between the legs and just tell “10 000 feat” twice a flight, oh and “Vi-one, rotation” or “I think we forget to retract the landing gear” on final approach but the whole idea of the two man crew is that one of the pilot is a flying pilot and the second one is the monitoring pilot. And the responsibilities of the second one should be monitoring of avionics, callouts, but not only the three, but way more during each flight phase, reading of the checklists and assistance with performing them and ATC duties on radio. This is important not only for realism, but for example trying to watch over the window on landing and also constantly monitoring the RA can cause a crash. And there is AI assisted ATC already in place so for what the reason it’s disabled entirely in carrier mode? For realism? Quite the opposite so please enable this option in carrier mode, at least on the missions that involve two man crew
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Agreed. I always get tickets when I play other things during the long flight.
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One of my biggest issues with career is having to find a work-around for issues that should not even be an issue. In free-flight mode it’s possible to let your co-pilot answer and acknowledge radio handoffs and anything else, yet in career mode no option exists. Nobody is going to actually sit in front of there screen for hours just waiting for radio calls. Sure you can fly a PC-24 under FL180 for 4hrs or cancel IFR before FL180 then keep climbing or many other countless work around but why should In a Simulator, why do we have to do things like this? Please Asobo allow us to assign the co-pilot to radio calls during career mode.
Oops👀 I do. Of course i do other stuff but as soon as i hear chatter i take a quick peek of what’s going on and respond if necessary.
The new Aircraft made available in career mode with SU4 require that all assistances be disabled. I would suggest that this not be the case when you eventually make heavy airliner certification available and with it the 747. Although we have nothing even resembling the skill or stress that a real life pilot has, it should be pointed out that a 747 has a pilot, a co-pilot and a flight engineer all sharing different responsibilities, and that in free flight mode the co-pilot takes care of all ATC communications. In career mode the co-pilot does absolutely nothing, he just sits there enjoying the view. Already with the 737 MAX I have sometimes found myself missing ATC messages because I was focussed on the number one priority in aviation (“fly the plane”).
Please consider giving the co-pilot in career mode some of the tasks that a co-pilot in real life has do do. Thanks!