Just noticed that in career mode the world map for my local area does not look as good or match the free flight world map. It looks like an older version.
The weather matches the live weather for the local area apparently. I haven’t figured out if I can change that. If I can’t adjust the weather that is kind of a bummer because on bad weather days if I’m stuck indoors I like to get on MSFS and fly. Guess I can take missions somewhere else in the world where the weather is better, but it would be nice to stay local.
Now that I’ve gotten some certifications under my belt most of the planes being used on missions are not ones that I have ever flown before and they are not available for selection in free flight, so there is no way to get some experience in them prior to going on a mission and risking my"reputation". I’ve been using “Abort” a lot to get some experience in these planes but now on easy missions in planes I’m comfortable with I’m suddenly getting engine failures or running out of fuel. Is the sim somehow penalizing me for the “Aborts”?
Just some observations. Was mostly enjoying career mode but now I’m getting frustrated with it.
Just a little more thinking about Career Mode in 2024. If the world map and the planes are different than what’s available in 2024 free flight right now, then is Career mode really using 2024 or is it built on 2020?
Is anyone else seeing these discrepancies and what are your thoughts?
ALL planes should be available for you in free flight, Career Mode uses just a fraction of the ones from the same roster. You should be able to practice in free flight mode, using the Abort Mission is not very convenient.
If there is a red dot next to a mission, it’s live time/weather, if there isn’t, it should be more forgiving. You can use the time slider in the top right on the world map to tweak your settings.
In my experience, even non red dot missions have terrible weather that matches the season, so I avoid bad weather areas and fly elsewhere.
Thanks for this info!
I do not have all of these planes available to me in free flight, specifically the De Havilland DHC-2 is currently coming up for a lot of my missions and isn’t available in free flight. There is at least one other plane I checked for in free flight and couldn’t find.
BTW I paid for the “Deluxe” package, or whatever it was called that has the full compliment of planes, meaning when I go to Marketplace I’ve already got all the planes available for 2024. I see planes I could purchase for 2020 but I don’t know if those work in 2024.
Anyway, some good feedback and I appreciate it!
That’s very weird, you should have the DHC-2 available. I think something might be wrong with your install.
Try going to the Marketplace and then Community and see if some items are not installed.
If you can’t find them, we can troubleshoot this issue, because if you can fly the DHC-2 in Career Mode, then you should have the plane.
I do not see the DHC-2 anywhere in marketplace or free flight. I have a DHC-6-300 but that is all. Do you have DHC-2 in your install or in your marketplace and if so do you also have 2020 loaded on your pc? I never owned 2020. I was using another sim before getting 2024.
In marketplace there are only a few planes at the top for 2024 that I don’t already have. If I scroll to the bottom it says I already own all the 2024 planes and packages.
I’ve installed 2024 twice, the day after it was released and again after the server issues stabilized.
Appreciate the help with this as my career mode progress has been great reduced. The DHC-2 is showing up in most of my missions. It would be nice if we were allowed to choose an appropriate plane for a given mission rather than be assigned one.
Technically the DHC-2 was included in the MSFS 2020 40th Anniversary Update. If you can actually fly it in the Career Mode mission, I don’t see how it is possible that you can’t access it in free flight. This seems to be an anomaly. Check if you have the DC-3 or the Airbus A310 available in free flight, those were in the 40th Anniversary version as well. If you can’t find any of these, you might be able to activate them via the Marketplace > Community folder tab (I’m mid-flight at the moment, I can’t check the exact path)
If the issue still persists, drop me a private message here on the forums and we can try to troubleshoot it.