Excuse me, but @Asobo what the fk the fking “by design” means? Mean it just simply that you are stupid or just ignorants? If it’s by design that the design of this particular item has to be changed as a design flaw.
I know it’s a pain and I don’t like it (IMHO runway lengths should be part of the mission description) but you CAN check the runways via the EFB before you even start the mission. You’d also be surprised at just how short of a runway you can land on with practice – I’ve even gone into Free Play to practice a very short runway approach and landing so that I can do some missions. And I have also touched down WAY before the actual runway in some cases so I could not crash into trees. You don’t HAVE to do what it says exactly, you can get creative – yes, you’ll get dinged on it but I prefer to have some fun with it.
I do NOT agree with their decision here to leave it entirely as-is, but I do agree that it’s ok to have shorter runways than most people are comfortable with IF they don’t make it take several minutes to qualify each mission – I’d even like to see departure and arrival runway length filters – also if the runway has “Lights” and maybe even filters by approach type (RNAV/RNP or ILS or Visual, etc). I’d also like to see options where you can select the type of weather and get big bonuses for flying into really poor weather conditions successfully.
Another “pro-tip” here is that you can pause and bring up the “Showcase” drone camera and scout ahead… or do it the old fashioned way and do a fly over before attempting to land.
Aside from the obvious complete mismatch there… What I would like that to say, right there on the summary is something like:
KDHN/32 8463’
CMT2/27W 2721’
Then you could know at a glance it’s a water runway and you could simply move on. Yes, that shouldn’t happen here where the plane is assigned in Employee mode, but if that is Freelance that could be perfectly valid, and you still wouldn’t know without digging pretty deeply into the mission.
And there are 1000s of cases where I might take the job and someone else might not (or vice versa) based on runway length (and include if there are precision approaches or not, and lights or not, hard/soft/water runway icons – right there on the little summary).
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Great sugestion but i doubt ot if Asobo will listen to this…the fact that is on the wishlist for so long say enough for me. Its not that this would be rocket science to program
I always check runway length in EFB and also try to land there in free flight when not sure that I can do it safely. The biggest problem here is that it’s almost impossible to find a mission with long enough runway that’s located near your current location so you always have to pay a lot of credits for plane transfer (talking about Pilatus, did’t try medium cargo with another plane). I’m not enjoying landing on short runways, it’s not fun for me…
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Sorry to ask, because this might be the wrong topic, but I came into an issue related to this. The mission was medium cargo (with PC-24) destination airport is ESGO Vargarda in Sweden. Since I encountered this topic’s issue I started checking starting and ending runway lenghts on all career missions just to be sure. In this case departing site was dangerously short but manageable, ESGO was ok at 900 meters.
Since this is medium cargo, it was a night mission with like a 3am arrival. Perfect descent, told by ATC to switch to VFR, no ILS, ok, no problem because no low clouds, visibility was ok.
But when getting close, no airport lights, no nothing, just some city streets lights. Did three passes, didn’t make it.
Is this something somebody else experienced? I mean, the airport just was not there! If it was, the runway had no lights.
Do I have to add visually checking each location now???
Yes it happens often particularly in countries that are more rural. The only way I have got around that was to land with all lights on and from an exterior view if you are caught out like that again. Over fly the area until you get where the runway is and land as slow as you can, with outside view, pc-12 screen is tinted quite a bit and view is better, because it could be a hard landing due to slight misjudgement in the dark.
Then for every flight thereafter check your destination, length of flight and runway. Change time before selecting mission to early a.m.
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It’s by design apparently…so we are supposed to land and take off with bigger planes on small runways :))
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