Career Mode Issues (updated)

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I’m finally enjoying FS 2024 as we now have a quite stable version.

Some issues are still annoying, though. I’ll list a few:

  1. My C-172 might start a mission on a heliport on top of a building

  2. Sometimes you’re taxiing some meters away from a tree and it’ll crash out of the blue

  3. Trucks and cars will randomly park and drive in your main pathway

  4. Groundspeed meter for taxiing sometimes shows random and erroneous values

  5. No night missions at all (this is really annoying and frustrating), even with IFR and Night Currency certifications

  6. No live weather if you fly as a Freelancer

  7. I can’t load missions into EFB on Xbox

  8. I can’t choose an aircraft to fly a mission, even those I bought in Deluxe edition

  9. I can’t filter missions at all

  10. I want to create my own flight plans

That’s it, I’m practicing and learning many aviation skills and this sim is just amazing, but some fixes are mandatory and urgent.

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Free Flight is a better training environment if you are trying to learn actual aviation skills and procedures. You can learn more from actual pilots from YouTube content creators from IRL. Their knowledge applies to Free Flight without the redicoulous penalties impossed within Career Mode.

I consider Career Mode and advanced random Flight Plan and aircraft addon selector so one doesn’t have to think too much about it.

The only thing Career Mode provides is a metric to compare your “success” or “devotion” to the game compared to other players. The metric is fictional, but it does provide a metric in which players can compare their acheivements. In game flight hours are meaningless. People may have 15000 hours, but it doesn’t necessarily reflect their skills, experience, or knowledge.

I enjoy the Career mode because it makes it simple to choose a location, a choice of reason to fly, and a choice of aircraft (albeit limited at the moment). Career Mode is definity not the medium to learn how to fly within any remotely credible aviation operation (simulated or real). It’s still a game. You might enjoy it more if you learn form IRL and credible sources. IRL information from actual pilots is definitely applicable in many cases in MSFS and makes the experience satisfying to be able to apply real techniques in game. IRL Information applies to the game, but not vise versa. If MSFS embeds their “training” seed into people who eventually persue a real career in aviation, the skys will become a deadlier profession and passengers will pay the ultimate cost with their lives for pilots who considered themselves heroes in MSFS.

Remember, an IRL instructor cannot train someone that thinks they already know everything.

IMO

Oh, I’m not a real pilot. I’m only a casual simmer.

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This sounds like a data error, like a wrong flag for the facility. It would probably help to include the ICAO identifier.

Which instrument are you talking about there? Are you talking about the info line in the EFB? The airspeed indicator can be affected by wind, so a gusty day with strong winds might lead to something like that.

I don’t think this is true. That 40 kt headwind I’m just flying in is exactly what I see on windy.com. I seem to remember reading somewhere that live weather only starts when you obtain a specific certification (Instrument Rating?). Also, the “golden” missions probably have a fixed custom weather so they’re not blocked by bad weather.

[edit: I was talking about employee missions, there. But I’m pretty sure I had live weather in the few flights I did as a freelancer before I crashed my company plane.]

This is working for me, most of the time. Maybe if you explain the issues you’re having, we can figure out what’s going on.