Pc 12 Medium Cargo Missions

Discussion Hub Activities, Career & Challenges
,
1

I’ve been liking the longer 3+ hour PC-12 medium cargo missions even as buggy as they are. For the most part I follow the blue gates for the approach. Sometimes it’s a fairly straight long approach and other times it’s the “teardrop” type.

It seems for the teardrop type that the blue gate spacing and approach area is the same regardless of the type of aircraft for a given mission. The PC12 mission I was flying last night, there was almost no way I could make the turns without banking almost 90 degrees or going so slow without stalling. Not sure if it is a sim issue where all of these approaches are the same.

Not to mention, the destination airport in the mission was far too small for a PC-12 to land. Not even close.

Are these missions randomly generated with no checks like approach size or airport size?

2

Wow! It literally just happened to me. I almost smashed the keyboard out of anger. I landed on a 100-meter-long strip and rolled out. My mission was a failure because I “landed at another destination”

3

Yup… I got a mission in C408 from a strip in the Alps even a 152 would have problems taking off

4

So frustrating. Of all the longer medium cargo missions, the PC12 is the only ones I can sometimes get through.

The Caravan has the prop speed issue, the SkyCourier I can’t load the GPS route, the PC24 I can’t retract the gear.

This sim was released in a horrendous state. I’m sure it will be fixed but I can’t believe it was released like this, paid no less.

5

You’re not alone facing such nasty situations. My typical medium cargo missions had good departure airports but arrival ones only had a road too short even with reverse thrust. Taxiways were not even wide enough to fit all wheels.
I believe the devs messed up by setting the condition for turboprops to have tarmac origin and destination runways regardless of their length.
To avoid these surprises, check the 2 airports on the EFB before accepting missions to see if they have big enough runways

7

For a real fun time, take both engines on the C408 into full reverse beta on decent. I was able to maintain a stabilized 5000fpm rate of decent at about 25* pitch down @ 90 knots in order to get into some tiny little airstrip in south America.

8

This is not only happening with cargo missions. The assignments seem to specifically direct you to very strange little airfields.

For example:

clp7
clp71920×1080 318 KB

Although it was very beautiful and a real challenge.

But we have a winner!

my-runway-was-a-bit-short-on-this-one-v0-1dmbyum1pl6e1
my-runway-was-a-bit-short-on-this-one-v0-1dmbyum1pl6e11920×1080 184 KB

9

Currently I fly only cargo medium mission in Africa and Australia.
Decided to go there cause of the weather.
Also the shortest strip I got was 1500ft and one water runway. So I can recommend these both areas.

1 Like
10

Just do a quick google search on the 2 airports for the mission. I know the missions give some weird airports but by googling these airports you can easily avoid all of this. Know your plane and you’ll be all set