[BUG] Career Mode: Heart ES-30 spawns backward + illogical mandatory pushback & "Skip to Taxi" fail

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:

In Career Mode, when accepting passenger transport missions using the Heart ES-30, the aircraft frequently spawns completely reversed at the parking ramp (facing the grass or terminal instead of the taxiway).

Because of this, the mission logic demands a mandatory “Pushback” objective to proceed. This creates two major issues:

  • Realism issue: The Heart ES-30 is an electric aircraft fully capable of performing a powerback using propeller reverse. A tug pushback shouldn’t be a strict requirement for this specific airframe.

  • Game-breaking bug: If the player tries to bypass this illogical spawn by using the “Skip to Taxi” button, the mission fails instantly (giving a “left the apron” penalty) or sometimes crashes the simulator.

Expected Behavior: The aircraft should spawn facing the taxiway/apron exit. If spawned facing the terminal, the ES-30 should be allowed to use its native powerback capabilities without being forced to use a tug. Most importantly, the “Skip to Taxi” button should safely teleport the aircraft to the taxiway without failing the mission.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

every time loading mission

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

  1. Launch MSFS 2024 and enter Career Mode.

  2. Accept a Passenger Transport mission.

  3. Select the Heart Aerospace ES-30.

  4. Load into the mission (happens very often at small/medium airports).

  5. Observe the aircraft spawning facing the wrong way.

  6. Check the mandatory “Pushback” objective.

+1 on the mandatory pushback!

I have started doing airliner missions and it will always demand a pushback even when the parking spot does not mandate it. I will spawn at a parking spot away from buildings with nothing behind me, and a nice yellow taxiway line in front of me and it will still demand a pushback.

I am currently doing a mission where I ignored the mandatory pushback and instead manually requested startup, started engines, asked for taxi clearance, taxi’d, asked for takeoff, took off.

I am now in cruise and the Mission Steps thinks I am in preflight and asks me to shutdown my engines and to request pushback: