This whole aspect of the sim is janky as hell.
It doesn’t matter that it says in the flight log.
The log that matters for achievements is the profile and many flights which are successfully logged into the flight log never get into the profile.
Sometimes this progress is completely wiped! Folks lose days/weeks/months of flight hours and/or achievement progress gets reset.
It’s been broken like this as long as I can remember (installed December 2020)
I honestly can’t believe they are going to release an air race dlc with this aspect of the sim so broken so maybe they will fix it soon…or maybe not.
Make very sure that you have NO liveries installed for those planes or any other mods for that matter…
do those planes , without mods / liveries at all and you get to 100%
selecting default livery while liveries are still in community folder = still fail
Everything is true to life except unlimited fuel. I’ve had that on for all the planes that have registered for the achievement properly. I’ll turn it back off just to check, but that hasn’t seemed to be an issue before.
It wasn’t as hard as you imagine. If you do lots of short touch, and goes it’s not too bad. One tip though is when landing make sure you slow down enough that you see the spinning indicator appear at the bottom right. If it doesn’t appear it hasn’t recorded your landing. It does that when you slow to <40kts.
In the absence of any real info about these achievements I ended up being completely superstitious about the whole thing.
True to life everything. (including no taxi ribbon)
No mods. No liveries, no flying to or from 3rd party enhanced airports or scenery areas.
No unlimited fuel.
No Co-Pilot handles ATC.
No VCR map, no som rate change.
Live Weather.*
*Live weather actually helped. I chose airports depending on wind speed and direction and used the wind to blow the aircraft along faster than it was otherwise capable.
I started a spreadsheet to track all, especially also for the 500 new airports.
I’ve kept it going. - and in doing so have noticed just how many landings at unvisited airports get logged as ok in the Pilots log but never make it to the Profile log count.
It’s a lot.
Just as a follow up. I tried a few other attempts on the Xbox Series X, to no avail. I switched profiles and attempted Job Shadowing and it worked first attempt. Took me a little over two hours, but it worked just fine.