Is there a bug report open for this? I looked and couldn’t find one.
Yep, I did report it, but the ticket was moved under User Interface and Activities subtopic for some reason. But it is here: B707-320C - Plane Balance is broken in Career Mode. Plane is barely able to take off
I would have expected it to be in the aircraft and systems bug category, but maybe it’s a career mode issue and not a plane issue?
I would suspect that the loading of payload and fuel for the aircraft in career mode is the trigger, since the airaft has no balance issues when used in free flight.
Something is not working correctly in that loading process, hence the move to activities .
It does not appear to be a fault of the aircraft.
Are thee any fixes to this issue or the silly repair bills in the next update? I got lost reading them.
Currently no meaningful career mode updates in the notes
Just some added filters on the mission map
Core issues remain
You can tell from the lack of communication in the beta section the participation is all time low
A quick update , I paid the 41mil repair bill on the Neo and jumped back in to give it another whirl, aircraft maintained fully and washed before take off, mission was a 4 hr flight to Havana, got S class rating on landing and a whopping 3.7mil repair bill on the Citation longitude I was flying, negated the pay and then some. Ah well, I’ll give it another month, then try again. Not sure what algorithm the AI is using but it is very skewed.
Yep, passive aircraft economy is terrible
If they can’t make the repair costs cheaper they should make the wear rate less, especially the engines, ive replaced the engines on my oldest fleet (737 or A320) like atleast 30 times already 
I must be a glutton for punishment, paid the 41mil and the 3.7 and a few other costs as stated above and yesterday I thought I’ll have a couple of flight s just to see how it goes. Low and behold after around 12 hours of flight the A320-Neo2 again has a 41million repair bill, The same plane I fixed for 41 mil has been flown for an additional 12 hours and has a 41mil bill again. I am now going backwards, In 19 hours of flight across a fleet of 21 mostly Pc12’s and Citations L and X I have made 37 million and paid out over 90million in repairs. Is it just the Neo or are other large planes as Bad with repair bills. So definitely out now till this gets addressed. If I want to fly I’ll do the challenge mode. Its a shame as it’s Career mode that finally made me interested in MSFS.
In the end there is no incentive to play career mode.
The maintenance costs are so disheartening for the ones you fly and the passive earnings are relatively so poor vs maintenance costs for the one’s you don’t, along with all the glitches and penalties, you just lose heart and never mind the time out of your life when a mission bombs at the end through no fault of your own!
The blurb about beta SU7 brings very little to career mode as well so not many if any fixes to look forward to especially the fixes we actually want.
Such a shame as it could be great fun.
Well no changes to the calamity in Sim 7, so I’ll have to wait a bit.