Heli mission Drop Area is 3400+NM away, unable to complete mission

[CptHerewego]

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:
In the mission “Refurbishing remote Chalet de Sorgia d’en Bas hut”, after you pick up the cargo on your hook, the drop area is erroneously located over 3400NM away, preventing the mission from being able to be completed. Flying to the spot on the briefing map does nothing.

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?
No mods/add-on used ever

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?
Every time I try to play this mission

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

1. Load mentioned mission
2. Complete taxi and pickup of cargo from pickup area
3. Observe drop area being located over 3400NM away

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, if relevant:
Not relevant

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?
No

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?
Nvdia GeForce RTX 3070

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[Alexsso06]

Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
• Yes

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• It happens for most Helicopter cargo missions with owned heli

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[Mrb14cknl]

Same here. The missions at sea work but in the mountains there is no dropzone to transport cargo to

[VeroC56]

Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to

around 50% of Gargo missions are affected by this. It also doesn’t help to restart the mission.
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• it’s always the same Distance: Over 3400 NM

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[SmokinHole1]

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Helicopter Cargo (sling) missions occasionally move the drop thousands of kilometers from the pickup. In the briefing, the distances are reasonable, say 5 - 15 KM away. But after cargo pickup, the framerate drops considerably and the destination waypoint moves to a different corner of the planet. So far I have only experienced this in Europe.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

Roughly 25% of helicopter cargo missions, both Chinook and H125.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

1. Fly a European helicopter cargo mission.

SCREENSHOT:

Xbox

YOUR SETTINGS

XBOX. There are no settings.

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[GlueRman]

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: When playing a helicopter cargo mission in Career Mode the drop-off area that appears on-screen shows as being more than 3000 NM away from the actual mission drop-off area on the map. After picking up the cargo, there is an immediate degradation of the sim’s performance with a lot of stuttering and when managing to reach the mission’s drop-off area, there is no target there to drop off the cargo.

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?

Yes

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?

All three different rotocraft cargo missions I have tried this far.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

1. Start Rotocraft cargo mission in career mode
2. Reach the cargo pick-up zone, hoist the cargo and lift it
3. ATC shows the correct drop-off zone, mission target shows it more than 3000 miles away, degradation of graphics performance
4. Reaching the ATC registered drop-off zone, the zone doesn’t appear in the sim.

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, if relevant:

Not relevant.

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?

No

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?

Not relevant

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?

Not relevant

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[Donald04]

Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
• Yes, just checked with latest Beta

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• Performance drops occur only after the cargo is lifted off the ground on my rick. Completely unplayable at this moment

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[pvaiko1203]

See also Helicopter FPS Drastically drop when switching mission task

[pvaiko1203]

Just had this again on SU4, with Taog’s 500C on a spraying mission, wanted me to taxi to a helipad 3xxx miles away. Managed to take off with 5 FPS or so and when the target was deactivated, FPS returned to normal.