What? That’s insane!
Yeah, it seems like it repeats what the previous day was as a baseline or until there is a different amount of hours billed.
So if you have a 100k insurance bill one day and don’t log in to fly, you will get charged that amount every day you don’t play the game. At least that’s what it did to me for the last 3 days.
I haven’t quite nailed the logic that it’s doing, but it’s not correct.
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Is your aircraft maintained perfectly? I’ve noticed that even when purchasing a “good” aircraft, there are enough issues with it that it flies poorly and “fixing” it was the only solution. Worth a test. Make enough in another plane (if you can) to fix up all the issues on your “problem” plane. Then see if it flies better.
Yeah, this is an odd choice by Asobo. Any aircraft that has a BOTH option for fuel tank selection should default to that.
The second daily reset is tonight(saturday) so won’t be truly fixed until Sunday nights insurance bill
This may have been mentioned but if you’re in something like a C172 and the conditions are cold, then there’s a chance you’ll ice up, stall and crash. I just had one mission where I had no option but to request IFR and ATC sent me to 8000ft and denied my request for a lower altitude. Next minute the plane stalled, spun out and crashed. I noticed it was icing even at take-off. Should’ve just packed up then tbh. If they gave us an option to politely refuse the flight then at least that would be realistic. Make the VIPs check into a hotel 'til it warms up a bit, or they give me a different aircraft that has sonme kind of anti-icing. 
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You’ll certainly be landing hard at 200 feet per second 
Same for me, no matter the plane (C172, C208). No skydivers in the plane. For Medical missions, no view of boarding and deplaning (in VR, not sure about 2D).
The 172 checklist says to set it to left/right as part of securing, so in at least some instances this behavior is correct..
I can’t remember which post I explained it on, but leaving it on BOTH allows the fuel to crossfeed when parked. If the right wing is left higher than the left and you have a certain fuel configuration (including during refueling) it can siphon to the left wing, where the fuel vent is, and spill overboard.
So when parked, LEFT or RIGHT is correct. During flight, you use BOTH unless it’s been feeding primarily from one or the other (this can happen) and is becoming unbalanced. Or maybe you had uneven fuel to begin with.
Where the sim messes up is that in a “ready to fly” or “ready to start” state - it should have been set to BOTH by that point.
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Additionally, If you use the quick-ATC button (Enter by default) when on final sometimes your pilot will blurt out the wrong runway, even if you manually selected a runway in earlier comms. You are then doomed to either land normally and take the penalty or immediately go-around and line up for the runway they chose.
At this point I think you can manually select the runway again and override it. (Might need to make a new final call after choosing the runway.)
I only did this once so can’t say I’ve extensively tested it, but it did work that one time.
Has somenone figured out how the triggers work? For example in VIP missions it‘s totally different every flight if i get the option to announce cruise altitude and i just had the decend announcement option once. The taxi and takeoff ones appear in most cases. At the end the passenger satisfaction never is over 75% and i assume its because of the missing announcements. Also i realized in medium cargo missions the skip to decend option does not appear everytime, wich sometimes is a problem if you can’t finish your 3 hour flight due to real life.
My day today TRYING to play career mode:
- I start the day with a VIP mission with my company. The game starts running at 7fps. The FG kept getting out of sync. I couldn’t even get out of the airport even with the graphics lowered (a 4080 can’t run this game). After a while I manage to take off and it starts to run a bit better. I manage to finish the mission with hurricane winds and the ATC makes a mistake giving me instructions to park. He makes me leave the runway to re-enter it and access another lane to the other parking areas (penalty). I finish the mission with IFR penalties and low customer satisfaction despite doing everything perfectly and smoothly despite the exaggerated wind.
- Second attempt. A light cargo mission over 200NM with a Cessna 172 Skyhawk with another company of mine. The EFB route could not send it to the avionics because of some kind of bug with the 172. After more than 2 hours of flight and when I had less than 10NM left my game crashes. I retry the mission but using the sim rate option. In the middle of the flight the autopilot goes crazy and crashes the plane into the sea. I do ALT+F4 before the crash is counted and when I return to the game it is counted as a failed mission but I didn’t lose my plane. Reputation down and an afternoon lost.
- Third attempt: I do the initial medium cargo mission. Again wind EXAGGERATED. Landing was impossible, the most exaggerated wind I have ever seen in my entire life. I have to land almost sideways and I crashed the plane. As it’s not a mission for a company of mine, I reappear, but I do it underground. The plane crashes again. TWELVE times, until it reappears on the runway. I get a penalty for leaving the runway without asking ATC (I was still on the runway). I finish the mission with the worst possible score, after crashing the plane 12 times and other penalties. My reputation drops from A to C.
Now I look at the passive income and out of the 4 or 5 hours I flew today it only counted for an hour and a half.
I paid €140 to play this game.
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Yes, the passive income is far to low. I initially thought, that is what gets us quickly to the cool planes, just have enough small ones and you make a lot of money. The passive income hardly pays for the maintenance of those planes.
It’s pretty minor compared to the other stuff posted here, but the character voices often don’t match the characters: i.e., a female co-pilot who sounds like James Earl Jones, or vice-versa. Female passengers often sound like they’re 10 years old, even if they look like they’re 60.
Also, a lot of the English dialog in SAR missions clearly wasn’t written by an English speaker, resulting in such gems as “Let’s keeping on pushing.” “He’s wearing orange hiking gears.” and, as you come in to land “We touch.”
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Today in Career Mode I suddenly cannot control the C172 normally. I can fly it fine in free flight mode using all the same profile settings.
What happens: In Career Mode only, as soon as I use one of my keys that are bound to adjust trim of either elevator or ailerons, the cockpit viewpoint goes just nuts. I find myself sinking to the floor of the cockpit, and when I reset my viewpoint then I find the plane is totally on it’s side and heading for the ground. With extreme difficulty I can sometimes avoid a crash for a few minutes but the plane is just all over the sky and I have to give up.
All these crashes and my Career Mode is tanked.
Tried the high power endorsement test twice and no luck. Sim would not let me into the cockpit - view was stuck in external. Tried to run the flight in external view but found the plane was uncontrollable and crashed it.