I used to get this intermittently, or it was airport-specific. For the last several days, I have been unable to start any flight career or free flight. In career mode airline passenger missions, the ATC gets stuck right after the boarding process completes. I am unable to get pushback, and if I try it myself, the mission fails for not completing the boarding process. So I decide I really want to fly so I switch it over to free flight. After completing the push back, “Landing Gear Failure.”
This is very frustrating, especially when the sim was working beautifully for weeks for me.
Something similar happens to me. When I’m flying charter with the VisionJet and I change the flight plan from IFR to VFR, ATC gets stuck with the waypoints. It’s quite annoying that this is still happening after two and a half years.
Happens to me annoyingly often on airliner missions, “Press RETURN to request IFR clearance” but nothing happens if I press Enter. I try to manually request it but none of the frequencies allow me to do so. On top of that, the airport does not even have ATC so who am I requesting the IFR clearance from? I tried to contact the airspace controller but that did not work either. There apparently was no way to progress the mission without skipping which I would have done if I had not gotten the oral announcement that boarding was completed.
Last mission I tried like five minutes ago I heard an audible “boarding completed” so I requested pushback, started engines, taxi’d off before getting a mission fail because “I left the passengers at the gate”.
This has been an issue for so incredibly long; the updates for this game are absolutely glacial.
As an off-topic side rant, there are the people that actually defend this. Microsoft is a multi-billion dollar company that has released an allegedly fully finished game for 70€, yet it is more buggy than some games I have alpha tested. They are releasing updates at a cadence I would expect from an indie dev team of four friends making a game for fun, despite being owned by a multi-billion dollar company.
Currently there are no heavy or oversized cargo missions despite you being able to take the certification for them. You can also buy heavy cargo planes but you can not actually do any missions with them because there are none. The game is not even finished yet there is no announcement of this being a beta, or early access, or anything of the sort. They have released it as a finished game so I am expecting it to be finished.
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ISSUE DESCRIPTION
Description of the issue: when doing an B737max mission I can transmit to ATC and also could do first “prepare for takeoff” intercom messaging to the cabin. but at some unknown point while enroute on cruise level the intercom hung up, I see the message and could “acknowledge” it by hitting enter but it was never “played” and also does not clear from the mission steps list. further ATC messages are still fine
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)? currently first flight in SU6 beta
REPRODUCTION STEPS
Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:
acknowledge/submit the expecected ATC/Intercom messages by hitting Enter
not sure whether it can actually be reproduced but at some point the “cruise status” via intercom just sits there and does not clear despite it was confirmed by Enter and seen in green
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? NO
[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use? RTX4070
[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share? not relevant IMHO
MEDIA
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Flying the A321LR in career mode. The ATC comms window and mission Steps windows are not functioning properly.
Mission steps are completely invisible.
Comms stopped functioning after takeoff when instructed to switch to center control. Clicking left on d-pad doesn’t respond to ATC. When stepping into the comms window, there is no option to switch to the correct frequency.
It appears there is something clickable below the window but nothing happens.
I also tried manually switching the frequency but it forces back to the tower frequency. I did this with vhf2 as well with no success.
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
This is the second occurrence.
REPRODUCTION STEPS
Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:
Fly A321LR in career mode
Attempt to open mission steps window
Attempt to respond to ATC/switch frequency after takeoff
I think I have identified one cause (which is not the only cause) but if two actions are available at the same time (actions that QUICK REPLY would trigger) this can get radio communications with ATC into a bad state where it will not progress properly after that (sometimes a Skip To … can reset things).
Here is one example series of events (details found using an event logger I wrote that records all the JS_LISTENER_* event details during career mission). Based on this analysis it seems that all of these triggers need to be protected so that only one can be triggered at at time and DisableMissionQuickAction isn’t stuck on.
20:53:14Z ATC POZNAN: Boeing PTA 613, Descend and maintain 4,000 ft. Contact Poznan Tower on 119.98. 20:53:23Z MENU Poznan Approach 123.040: ['1 - Acknowledge Approach Clearance', '2 - Say Again'] 20:53:23Z STEP Press [Enter] to accept instructions via radio 20:53:24Z STEP Press [Enter] to contact tower via radio 20:53:25Z MENU Poznan Tower 119.980: ['1 - [ Tune Poznan Tower on 119.980 ]'] 20:53:25Z ATC Calculator CLEAREDAPPROACHVECTORSTOFINALValidation = 1, ATCTower = 1, DisableMissionQuickAction = 1 (also on every calculator that references it) 20:53:26Z ATC You: Descend and maintain 4,000 ft. Tower on 119.98 Boeing PTA 613 20:55:00Z MENU Poznan Tower 119.980: ['1 - Contact Poznan Tower'] 20:55:01Z ATC You: Poznan Tower, Boeing PTA 613, 18 miles southeast, inbound ILS Z runway 28 approach. 20:55:02Z ATC Calculator ATCTower = 0 (CLEAREDAPPROACHVECTORSTOFINALValidation still 1, so DisableMissionQuickAction still 1) 20:55:11Z ATC POZNAN: Boeing PTA 613, Poznan Tower. QNH 1016, Cleared ILS Z runway 28 approach. 21:00:36Z ATC POZNAN: Boeing PTA 613, Wind 254 at 9, cleared to land runway 28. 21:00:45Z OBJ COMPLETED: Landing 21:03:45Z ATC POZNAN: Boeing PTA 613, exit runway when able. 21:04:18Z ATC POZNAN: Boeing PTA 613, contact ground on 124.14. 21:04:59Z OBJ COMPLETED: Taxi 21:05:10Z ATC POZNAN: Boeing PTA 613, taxi to general aviation parking via taxiway A B. 21:05:19Z ATC You: Taxiing to general aviation parking via taxiway A B, Boeing PTA 613. 21:05:20Z Landing announce calculator activated; its DisableMissionQuickAction = 1, IsMessagePlaying = 1 21:05:32Z Landing announce calculator IsMessagePlaying = 0 (DisableMissionQuickAction still 1) (no landing announcement step, no ATCLandingInfo, no LandingAnnounceOnGoing, no LandingAnnounce)
