Sadly the career mode is broken.
I. Broken career companies in career mode
I can’t open any other companies other than a “Flightseeing” company. Although I have enough cash and all qualifications and specifications are met, another company such as VIP Charter or Cargo can´t be opened.
By the way, VIP Missions are not generated whatsoever.
II. VIP Missions not generated
No VIP Missions are generated.
III. Flight model and Sim rate
The use of accelerated simrate (necessary for completing 3h+ flights) is not integrated in flight modelling and autopilot. If you speed up the simrate, flight model will break over time. While in cruise with autopilot on [NAV + ALT+ AP+ YD]) the aircraft will show a repetitive and oscilation flight path, that scales into doom (stalling and overspeeding, while ganing and loosing altitude) with higher simrate. That shows clearly that simrate is not working with current autopilot and flightmodeling. By the way, flight modelling for small aircraft seems to be a generic circle (or wheel) and seems not to be influenced by weather. Aircraft positions are center, center up, middle back, center down, middle front, and so forth.
IV. Conclusion
I am honestly very disappointed to see such an unpolished version of a singleplayer career mode and basic flight model months after launch in a game sold for 140 EUR. Considering that the previous game was already developed and the real differences are mostly visual, one might wonder how four years of development time were used in the first place. I honestly ask myself how such problems are not visible in QA testing.
I think it would be fair to say that massive refunds should be paid out to customers.