Assuming your throttle isn’t stuck open due to a controller issue (you’d see it pushed all the way in in the cockpit) this is just something you’ll need to practice. Forward and side slips work in FS2024 as they did in 2020 and dramatically decrease speed. But without flaps, you’re right, it’ll be a lot trickier to slow down. still doable, you’ll just need to start further away from the airport and lower. Aerodynamics dictates that an aircraft with no thrust absolutely will fall out of the sky, just ignore the blue boxes and get further away from the runway to start slowing down earlier using no power, nose up, and slips when needed. I don’t even use the flaps to land in half of the aircraft because it causes you to get an flaps overspeed error. They help a lot, but are not technically required to land a plane.
lol. Trust me it’s impossible. I’m not that good of a pilot. And the flaps just makes almost any landing possible because they slow you down so much in the air.
And I want to fix this issue. Because idk what’s wrong. I feel like it’s just one of those unexplainable things were I have to fix the entire plane for 200k. And I don’t have that. L the game fix cost is so unbalanced. It’s an issue with the company plane. in the cockpit when I pressed the flaps button it moves up and down but in external view. It never moves. So there’s one part in the plane that needs to be fixed but no idea what that is
I mean this with encouragement, but I do not trust you that it’s impossible because it is not at all impossible. Aircraft cannot stay in the air at a fixed speed without power. Read up or watch some videos on slow flight. There are tons of ways to slow an aircraft down without flaps as mentioned before. If you pull the throttle to idle and fly in a straight line, you will slow down enough to land easily, provided you’re far enough away from the airport. Most GA aircraft have a fairly low glide ratio, meaning they will 100% fall out of the sky eventually without power. GA aircraft are designed to go slow. If you’re going too fast, it’s a practice issue and that’s not meant as an insult, it’s just something you have to get experience with or career mode will never be a good experience.
Financially speaking, I would restart the career, personally. I ran into a glitch earlier and ended up with a $499,000 bill. Even at career level 32, I just opted to restart instead of dealing with it. But it should be telling you what part of the plane is broken. It’s probably quite simply the flaps. You can inspect them from the outside and see their condition. You either pay the fee to fix the individual parts or you pay the single fee to fix the aircraft until the next checkup (usually cheaper). Either way, it’s likely more money than you have right now and not worth losing sleep over. Your only other two options are to fly a ton of missions to be able to repair the plane or save up enough money to buy a new (used) one or even start a new company and buy one, if it’s cheaper than the repair bill (doesn’t sound like it would be, though.)
Beyond that, all we can do is hope that Asobo fixes any terrain glitches or other career bugs that make a crash inevitable, but if you are crashing due to not being able to slow your plane down, there’s nothing to fix other than learning how to slow the plane down. It takes some time and practice but it’s worth it.
idk why u want to put it on me. i tried fixing the plane and all i know is the flaps dont work and when i go in to the repair options it says flaps are fixed. and yes its possible to slow down without flaps but maybe im just not that good and with flaps it just makes everything easier and without them its too difficult for me, and i shouldnt even be having this issue because of what i explained
At this point, I would just start grinding out missions working as an employee to earn enough to start fixing things. After an item is fixed, maybe take the company plane up in an easy mission to see if it got your flaps working again. Tedious yes, but it should eventually get the flaps working again. But I’m also just stubborn like that.
See if any of your fuses are pulled on the fuse panel, especially any related to flap operation.
I partially misunderstood, my point was just that you can do it without flaps with very little practice, but I get it. As for why it says your flaps are fixed but it’s not letting you put them down, my main theory is this: Flaps in the Cessna 172 are operated by electricity. There’s a motor in the right wing. One of the items that can become damaged is just “Electrical system” and if that is sufficiently damaged, I could see it preventing the flaps from working even if other electrical components are working. In your original screenshots, Electrical system was marked as out of order. Unless you already fixed that, that would be the next thing I recommend repairing.
But as far as the issue goes, unless your original crash was caused by a bug, there isn’t a problem here, really. You take on a ton of risk when buying an aircraft in career mode. But you’re not prevented from continuing your career, you can keep doing the same missions you were doing before you bought the plane. It’s frustrating, but I kind of like that. And I say this as someone who just reset my own career due to losing my plane to a bug (skipped taxi and the plane was instantly destroyed.)
Closing thought, here’s a video of a no-flaps landing I did in the 172 last night:
This mission put me on a long final, the video starts when I’m rougly 4.5nm away from the airport, so I had plenty of time to slow down but you can ignore the blue boxes in missions and get as much distance as you need. I intentionally get some speed (around 110 kts) to show how much I’m able to slow down without flaps. Even with power, I slow to 102kts just by having my nose up. At 34 seconds, I cut my power and drop to 74 knots in around 15 seconds. I actually have to apply quite a bit of power afterwards to not continue sinking. At around 2:00 I’m coming into the airport intentionally high, meaning I’ll gain speed if I nose down, so I do a slip at 2:21 (right rudder, left aileron) which slows me from 70 kts to 60 kts in just a few seconds. After leveling out, I do gain back some speed but still land well within normal landing speed range. I’m not trying to beat a dead horse here, but you said a couple times that slips “don’t work” or that it’s “impossible” and I’m just encouraging you to give it a try if it lets you continue to use your 172 in career.
Well, that’s realistic then, isn’t it.
i know what you mean and ofc its possible to land without flaps but you just need so much time and a good runway but the career mode isnt the same as free flight so you cant just choose were to land.
yeah the problem is fixing the rest of the plane cost 250k and i dont have that so idk what needs fixing because each part cost over 40k to fix
That’s why I said I would start grinding, and then be selective about what I fix. Yes it’ll take a while, but at this point it’s probably the only way to figure out what’s stopping the flaps from working.
the flaps are working now but the plane is so hard to control still so whatever their calling vital parts is just enough to make it fly. but its never easy to fly like a plane that is fixed. like for example when im flying the contract missions i can fly and land easily. even now with the flaps working its still hard to control the company plane
and im doing company missions now and im only getting 12k? it used to be 25k so has that been nerfed?
I have to write my anger off… finally, I was able to buy my own plane! First mission as a ‘freelancer’… plane spawns in front of a hangar, and ALT+P gives me nothing, so, after paying 1500 to relocate… I threw that away.
Next mission then… I start, had to relocate of course because the other one spawns me in the wrong place. Again, 1500. Now my controls are somehow busted. I have to restart the game.
After restarting, controls working, i take off, everything fine and even managed to tune into the frequency to start saying at every airport that i’m overlfying…
But hey, thats weird… if i change back after flying over… no more options. I can change frequencies all i want but… nothing. Well okay, lets accept the fines then for no announcements, maybe it all starts working when im in the approach again.
Of course, it doesnt start working and of course, i end up at some airport with an unbelievable short runway. I’m on final with a smooth 65, flaps down, touch the runway… SUDDEN STOP.
Landing gear broken… but… HOW?! I must have been below 150 fps or somehting. No ALT+N for me either, no pushing back…
So i have to abort mission… got a sick feeling in my stomach… and yes… 25.000 for repairing the gear i didnt even destroy myself!
So… now back to the grinding again, until i have money for the landing gear…
sigh this game… i wanted to play it so badly…
I feel your pain.
I purchased a used C208 a couple of days ago.
After spending a whopping 1,1m for maintenance, I started running cargo with it.
After the second job, the engine suddenly broke… I had everything in the green during both jobs.
It costed me 265k just to replace the engine.
Not flying that thing again, even if the job rewards is 950k +.
Yea - today I was slowly slowly taxing to my parking spot when all of a sudden my plane hit something invisible and crashed?? While taxiing?
They can’t be serious releasing this pile of s**t really.
Or sometimes you just don’t get any passive income. Randomly - just like that.
For me, it seems like slipping doesn’t induce as much drag as it used to in 2020. Maybe I should just let the plane get really dirty to help create some drag 
What would happen if you deleted that company and started a new one. Like filing chapter 7. Would you be able to buy another used airplane for 20,000? I haven’t tried it but that would stop from having to grind too much.
It would be nice if there was a financing option so that we could take out loans to buy new aircraft. A simple formula based on how much you are offering as a down payment and how much remains would be sufficient to start. If they wanted to be more accurate, they could also take into consideration your recent income and offer different maturity lengths to determine interest rates and monthly payments. That would help open up the business side a bit faster and be a bit more realistic. I actually think that would be preferable to the current system of offering the first aircraft at 90% off which has confused a lot of people.
Yes, and also, dont start a sightseeing company… yesterday i discovered the ‘Sim Rate Up’ functionality. I was looking for workarounds for the grinding and took a cargo flight, sim rate up whilst flying (dont forget overflying airports), sim rate down at the approach, a smooth landing and of course, the brakes didnt work suddenly, BUT, I managed to park into a building without crashing (dont ask me how that works). 80k credits richer. So i tried that again 
Wanted to work towards a crewed mode with passive income but seeing all those insurance bug reports ill stick with flying myself.
So to gain credits:
1: start a cargo company
2: take 100nm flights
3: sim rate up after T/O
4: sim rate down before landing
5: hold up your hand 
6: don’t start crewed flights just yet
What are the requirements to get a Cargo Company? Right now it says something like;
Specializations required 2/5
Aircraft Available for sale (with a red dot next to it)
What specializations are needed I have the light and medium cargo specialty and almost all of the other bottom half of specialties, and I have all the qualifications up but not including the various airline pilot qualifications and how do you get rid of the red dot on the Aircraft available for sale? I’m at a loss, I am so bored of grinding the sightseeing flights I need CARGO asap!
same here but you need 10k to open the company then like 250k to buy the cheapest plane
too bad payouts for company missions are like 10k now instead of 25k
Yes, I noticed that too, but there are employee missions early on (ie. Medivac, or VIP flights) that get you good money. All the medivac missions seem to be for $30k or more, but the seem to be 3:30 hour missions.