I am wasting too much time flying missions that are impossible.
I am using a Platius PC24 and the missions use obscure airports that the FMC don’t recognize. The weather on some is so bad and I need an ILS approach, yet all these airports don’t have an ILS approach. After a 4 hour flight, I need to abort. I thought about an alternate but I can’ figure ow to input an alternate in the PC24. Also SPEED indicator is frozen on last 2 missions and only ground spend via EFB as the only was to tell my approx. speed . This constant fustration may send me back to my PMDG planes in 2020
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I don’t like the Obscure airports that the FMS doesn’t recognize either, Why can’t I fly a cargo mission to LAX or Ohare?
but before accepting a mission I always check the runway lengths first, I prefer 4000’ plus but can do 3000’ for takeoff. If the flight model was better for the PC24 it might be better.
the speed indicator is probably your pitot icing over, make sure your bleeds are on both and turn the IPS knob to “ALL ON” and wait a min, it’ll come back.
Going to Alternate will fail mission, must land where the mission wants you to go.
Or abort.
Live weather seems always very extreme (wind). Not sure if waether data is wrong, or the effects in career are completely overdone. Had multiple times where crosswind blew me of runway or flipped the aircraft…
PC-12/24
You can change destination under “FPLN” Tab, when the “plane on the ground” symbol is selected.
On the “landing plane symbol” on “STAR/Ldg” Tab, click on “Rwy/App/STAR” button.
Select runway, on Visula Approch select “STRAIGHT” instead “VECTORS”.
It should create an waypoint in front of runway at correct altitude.
With that you can basically fly it like an RNAV.
Similar/Same on Garmin.
I always use that insted of the insane patterns the game creates.
STB155, WCC Thanks:
Ok good advice. Great tip. I’ll check that for icing as the window is also showing icing. I also check for airports before starting mission with long runways, but none have ILS. Correct me I’m wrong, but flying in a heavy rain and fog without an ILS approach is virtually impossible. I can land a 777 in complete fog if I have the ILS tunes in, but these small airports have no ILS. So what do you do in complete fog? The PC24 or Navigraph won’t even find these airports in the database.
OK on a related question:
I have the Caravan and PC24. When I choose a mission, how do know what plane it is calling for. I pick a mission close to my caravan and it chooses the PC24 with 100K transfer credits. Then I choose a mission close to my PC 24 and it chooses a Caravan with 200k transfer credits. Can I filter missions on what plane I want to fly
It probably has to do with the distance, lenght of the runways and the payload.
I would like to re-state the missions suck- really suck - they are severely flawed.
I am a very experienced MSFS user and pilot as well. I spend 3 hours and 8 attempts to complete 1 mission in my PC24.
Crashes include. taxing into an object I don’t see in some really small airport that there are no maps for. Runway in mission too short to take off from. Weather below minimums with no ILS available, computer shut down, landing gear failure mid flight (even though retraced) , loss of all displays mid flight, cancelling IFR and failing because I deviated off flight path in VFR flights (trying to take short cut) any plane was all green as far as Maintenace went when failures happened. Plus Maintenace ees are killing me and so is insurance. I should no spend 1 million credits eevery week to maintain
I agree MSFS career mode uses to many permanently closed, or obscure farm airports, and airports that just don’t exist in any FAA databases. Where the heck are they finding these airports, Please Asobo review the airports in the FAA database before using them in career mode.
Yeah I’m putting this game down until all the bugs are fixed. Had a plane crash while in autopilot yesterday and then next mission the servers took a dump and I never got my credits or score. I can’t waste time on a seriously flawed product.
OK here is one example of 45 minutes of wasted time. Took my PC25 on a mission from KMKN to KSST. I could not find KSTT in Google by my flight planner in EFB said it was a paved 5000 ft runway. Upon landing I see his runway it is indeed paved but on a farm and is only like 1000 ft long. To avoid a crash, I het the ESC and aborted this mission.
OK - here is one more. Aircraft was is perfect condition. On final approach, I see aircraft malfunction. I land but can’t taxi at all - so mission failed. No skipping done here either
Try to drive of the runway so it gives you the option to skip to parking. Atleast you can finish the mission.
cant- full throttle and no movement = brakes off. No failures on plane either
Can you steer after landing?
That’s one of those fake ICAO codes the AI gives to an unregistered airport (or airport-looking object) it detects. One of the more annoying “features” of the sim, it should never be a thing. That should be reported in the master airport bug thread.
that sounds like a popped tire 
All my medevac mission options are ridiculously long. Tried one earlier had to take a patient from Doncaster all the way to some obscure town in Norway in a PC12!! Got halfway across the north sea to hear the doctor at the back announce that we needed to get the patient to hospital and to land ASAP!!! 
They need work for sure b