Are you trying to say you can’t land a 208B at a seaside airstrip with a 43 knot crosswind off the mountain and turbulence befitting the Wizard of Oz tornado? Surely, this was just a skill issue. Alt+F4 the mission and try again. It’s only an hour of flight time before you get to try the landing again. I believe in you.
Haha, just kidding. I had a terrible experience with that same mission, if you can’t tell. Crashed the plane 16 times before slamming it down on the runway just gently enough to not be considered a crash. My rating tanked from mid-S to low D and I had to farm Flight Seeing missions for a whole day to undo the reputation damage. Here’s what I learned:
- Go into your settings and turn OFF Live Weather completely. It’s currently bugged so bad it’s just not worth it in career mode. Doing this will give you standard temperature and pressure the world over, 2-5kt surface winds and a max of 10-15kt winds at altitude. It’s a tough pill to swallow because I really want the experience of flying in real conditions, but the game just has to be fixed first.
- For frame rate issues, I have a 4070 and get around 40-50 FPS. Try using TAA instead of DLSS because the performance is no different and with TAA you can actually read a G1000. Make sure anything with a slider (like Object LOD) is set to 100. Make sure “Raytraced Shadows” is OFF. Most of my options are on “High” or less except for Off Screen Terrain Pre-Caching, which is Ultra.
- Check the EFB before every mission and make sure the cruise altitude is no higher than 15 000 feet so you don’t fail due to hypoxia. Change the number to 1 000 feet LESS than what you actually want to fly, click “File Plan with ATC”, wait for the button to light back up, then click “Send Route to Avionics” to be sure the change sticks when you load the flight. That second step ONLY works for planes where Asobo’s EFB is visible by default and has a mount for it in the cockpit. For example, it doesn’t work for the Pilatus PC-12 or the Cirrus Vision Jet G2.
- Once you have sent the plan to the Avionics in planes where it’s available, your GPS can now be programmed to the specially-named waypoints Aosobo created in the EFB. For example, you can use the MFD to “twist in” waypoints like “TRDP1”, “TRDP2”, etc. This is great for getting the GPS to actually align with Asobo’s floating brackets.
- Autopilot freaking out with sim rate adjustment is a known issue among those who use it (not me, but no judgement) and the workaround is to avoid HDG mode, use NAV instead and be sure your flight plan is configured right, then set your cruise altitude to 1000 feet higher than what you want to cruise at, but set the Vertical Speed to 0.
- To farm your rep back up to S, if you care, do Flight Seeing missions in a C172, use the “Skip to whatever phase” every chance you get, UNLESS the mission preview shows a straight in approach to landing. For those, skip every phase except the descent because it will place you very high and fast over the runway and you’ll have to go around. Smooth circles in the air and smooth landings will get you S ratings every time, but from D to S is still a bit of a grind.
Credit where due:
Tip for using autopilot + sim rate in the Caravan, PC-12, PC-24 and others - Discussion Hub / Activities, Career & Challenges - Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums