One thing I can say so some who bought the sim later can have some hope in that the bush trips did work just fine after the first update when they fixed a minor bug within the bush trips. And all bush trips then could be finished without any problems whatsoever.
That being said is it of course at present quite different sadly enough. And I found what causes it. Àlthough I again have the gps option within the plane itself to fly the route with the flight plan showing in the dial in how to fly a trip from POI to POI and land.
The trip itself is really being saved, but within the sim it doesn’t show that you have finished that leg.
I did six legs in the Pataganio bush trip and all six legs have been saved as done, but the reason why it doesn’t show in the sim itself that you’ve done them and you have to start again the first leg is because after the trip ends the sim doesn’t generate one particular file, namely the
.SPB file needed to get it marked in the sim as well like ALASKA_SAVE_0001.SPB for the finished second leg of the Alaska bush trips.
Oh and don’t copy that one into for instance the Chile bush trip as it yes shows you have finished all trips, but if you look carefully when you click a leg, then it will show a picture of the next Alaska airport you have to land at, and not a Chilean one.
So that’s no option to solve it sadly enough.
I read one on the Vatsim forum, though it’s one where you can cheat with and finish all bush trips without really flying them, then just the beginning and end of every leg, and so I won’t give it here.
Best way is to hope that someone knows how you could generate that .SPB file somehow.
Because at the end that’s the main problem, and once that’s fixed all bush trips can be again finished just like you could before.
So yes the uninstalling of the 3rd party add-ons seems to have caused a negative side-effect in that the sim doesn’t generate a particular file already from the first trip.
Will see at a later day if it’s consistent with one of the other bush trips that I have an unfished trip I finished if it’s consistent. Now that only the standard bush trips are only available there are just the Norway one and the German one as well the Alps one. All others I have been able to finish, even after the SU4 and 5 update strangely enough and with the 3rd party add-ons still installed, but without a working G1000 gps system then.