Helicopter S&R are currently my favourite too and I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you’ll need to prepare yourself for the disappointment/frustration of finding your victim in the middle of a mass of trees or on a totally un-landable slope. The former of these situations can be largely avoided, if you can find a mountainous search location, which doesn’t have too many, if any, trees.
Keep it on for Grand Canyon, or you’ll be severally disappointed 
You are suggesting that MS/Osobo sat in a conference room and decided to intentionally add bugs to frustrate its customer base, so that they could reduce their revenue from the game. Your post will be viewed as disingenuous. I would suggest making more constructive post to be a part of the solution.
Are you really really serious??
This post should be taken offline.
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I have the same impression. It’s like a sabotage job. Who designs funny Error character models with a thumbs up gesture? Who approves passengers hilariously hanging upside down from Bonanza G36? It seems to be designed with intent to ridicule MSFS 2024.
So you are determining DEI based on the number of non-whites hired. This type post doesnt belong on a flight sim discussion board.
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Well, in all of the areas that I’ve opened up so far, in Career Mode, a lot of which are mountainous areas, like the whole of the Alps, I can see just one helicopter S&R mission, globally.
There’s apparently something not quite right about the mission spawning code.
Maybe nobody ever gets lost heading into peak skiing season, in Europe?
Edit: Oh and there’s not a single Private Charter Flight.
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Well, I made one last attempt today to finish on a satisfying mission:
- Employee 737 flight
- Again, no problem logging into the game after Update 3
- Aircraft setup complete in 10 minutes. But, passengers were boarding from ramp stairs, one by one, at about a 1% per 10 seconds. I did not want to skip to taxi, take the penalty, and make my flight worthless (regarding Career System progression).
- I accepted the reatively realistic boarding time
- Started both engines (without being slammed up and down into a crash like then last 737 attempt), successfully taxied and made it onto runway for takeoff, then commanded TOGA
**** Just before rotation at 142 knots, it looked like I hit something in the middle of the runway and tumbled my aircraft before → “You Crashed your Plane” → blank screen and respawned to climb out above runway.
**** Exit to menu. ****
Now, three times in a row
…as well as consistent to near certainty
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Just toss it aside for now, in the current state it is no good for anyones mental health… From having to set parking brake on helicopters with skids, penalties for taxiing with flaps out, aircraft flipping upside down when starting missions, the whole thing is fundamentally flawed.
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I see a lot of posts about bug issues playing Xbox & flying missions. As for myself, I’m just interested in “free flights”. I just like planning a flight from my home airport & flying to various destinations. I mainly criss cross N America & the Caribbean islands . Are there a lot of bugs in “free flights”??? Currently I’m still with 2020 & will hold off on 24 until I start reading better reviews.
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Crashes, soft locks (depending on the aircraft), bug-ridden aircraft, non-working lights and controls, awful LOD and scenery, blurry textures, flickering textures and foliage, no model matching in AI traffic, problematic ATC. Xbox Free Flight in a nutshell.
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The ability to fly the world with the plane of my choice unimpeded by game breaking bugs at every turn. It’s a personal choice 
Also I would imagine that Xbox users, VR enthusiasts and PC24 fliers could chime in with a comment or two
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No, they sat in a conference room and decided they were going to release it anyway, despite the amount of issues the game had. So yeah, intentional.
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Simple deadline!
Microsoft ultimately makes the decision to release.
Almost all of the issues mentioned in this thread appear normal to me and not unexpected or suspicious. I accept MSFS 2024 as an Open Beta marketed as a full release. I don’t necessarily fault Asobo or Microsoft for making a decision to release “early”, as I am amazed by the potential of the game. I can see (demeanor in the Dev Update) that Asobo is genuinely continuing to persue their wonderful vision for it. That much is obvious, and why I don’t complain about the myriad of bugs in the game.
However, there are specific “bugs” that do appear to be malicious to me, due to when they occur and the circumstances where users are likely to encounter them. IMO.
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Time to Laugh out loud rather than become frustrated.
So latest update installed … pretty smotth couple of free flights…but i am a bit fed up because the only aircraft that is worth flying , standard edition, is the 172. Tried to get my Blacksquare TBM to work but there is no engine sounds.
Anyway…i thought…wait there is all this development into the Career mode…that might be fun…I chose career mode and…crash to desktop …hilarous
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I seem to recall that any topic in this forum is limited to 2000 replies? Getting close here, and it’s kind of sad that this particular subject has almost reached that number in one month.
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You are completely missing the point. The OP suggested that it was done to upset its customers. No one at MS/Osobo sat around and said, how can we upset our customer base. I have an idea, we can add a bunch of bugs to the game, there should help us to miss our revenue targets.
