Got the prelims done for doing medium cargo missions. Was kind of stoked in fact to be doing a mission with a higher payout. I see that it is something like 600nm’s flight, that takes 3.5 hours for the Grand Caravan. I accept the mission, get into the air, fly about halfway to find that there is no option to skip to decent like the other missions, but more importantly; the engines died. The plane ran completely out of fuel and was dead in the water at just past 1/2 way. Needless to say the packages never arrived.
I thought was just maybe a bug, so I reloaded the same mission. I set the fuel to be in excess, with the secondary storage completely full. Again I set off, again I get to half way, and again the plane is out of fuel. Somehow going from 100% Fuel, to nothing. Sounds odd? Yeah… Put that with all the other bugs, and one wonders if this whole ‘Sim’ (not a sim) was made by monkey’s.
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This happens because not enough fuel is added by default and adding fuel via EFB currently does not work. There is also an issue preventing fuel from being added to company planes.
If you have external binding software (such as Spad or AAO), you can add fuel directly by editing variables once you are in the plane for the time being.
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There is a binding to add fuel, adds 25% at a time.
Do not use repair and refuel, you will get an error message during the mission.
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I would love to do medium cargo runs - but NONE of them are spawning… I have all certification except the airline pilot one - I did once a medium cargo one - then never again one spawned.
Very annoying to say the least.
Make sure you check the specializations tab. You need to do a number of flights, and or meet other prerequisites like level. Also keep an eye out for the ‘Gold’ missions that are on the map, you need to prove yourself with those before the missions will ever spawn.
Yes - I know - I did the gold mission - after this - never got one again…