Subject: Serious Glitches in MSFS 2024 Career Mode

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Subject: Serious Glitches in MSFS 2024 Career Mode: ATC Failures, Mission Bugs, Cargo Visual Issues, and Taxiing Crashes

Dear MSFS Support Team,

I’m writing to report several critical bugs I’ve experienced in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Career Mode, all within just the past two days (Sunday and Monday). These issues make it extremely difficult to complete missions fairly and progress in the game.

Here’s a detailed breakdown of the problems:

  1. ATC Communication Failures and Aircraft Pileups

I’m penalized for not requesting taxi or runway clearance, yet no option appears in the ATC menu or mission objectives to make the call.

Even after successfully requesting clearance, ATC often doesn’t respond, leaving me stuck on the runway indefinitely. Meanwhile, 10 or more AI aircraft pile up on top of my aircraft, creating visual glitches and a mess of overlapping models.

The ATC system appears to be completely overwhelmed and unable to manage takeoffs and landings properly. Even restarting the game doesn’t resolve the issue.

  1. Mission Objective Glitches

In a VIP 737 mission worth 52,000 credits, I loaded passengers, taxied, and took off successfully—but AFTER takeoff, the mission suddenly prompted me to board passengers, call the catering truck, and other pre-departure steps. These objectives should have been completed before departure, yet they appeared after I was already airborne.

When I tried using the game’s ALT fast-forward feature (as suggested), it sent me back to the runway. This resulted in penalties for landing on the “wrong runway” and failing the mission.

  1. Cargo Mission Visual Bugs

In some cargo missions, cargo is correctly visible in the aircraft (like boxes in a Cessna cabin), but in others—especially larger aircraft—no cargo appears at all, despite the mission marking it as loaded.

  1. Taxiing Crash Glitches During Parking

After landing, I’ve followed the ground marshaller’s signals into my parking spot, only to suddenly crash into an invisible object despite being guided to continue forward. This causes instant mission failure and is extremely frustrating.

These issues have all occurred within just two days of normal gameplay and make Career Mode unreliable and frustrating. I hope your team can prioritize fixing these bugs—especially the ATC handling issues, mission objective timing errors, and parking glitches.

Thank you for your time, and I’d appreciate an update on when we might see these problems addressed.

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Another bug I encountered several times now is that I get penalized for allegedly entering the taxiway without permission right after touchdown while still slowing down the plane. While not as game breaking as some of the bugs mentioned by you it stills hurts the mission rating.

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See bug report of that bug below…

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happens to me too at about 50% probability.. I can also confirm op’s points, experienced all of them. Also “fell down” a taxiway in my 172 after the earth suddenly burst open.

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Dont expect MS to do anything about this. There has been numerois complaints over the past months, seemingly falling on deaf ears. Career mode is the only component worth playing at this time, but with a laundry list of incomprehensible issues, it is so bad that I had to stop playing completely. I would love to at least hear " Yes, we are working on this.
please be patient". And someone in a sr position should be summarily fired and replaced with a somewhat more competent clown…

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I just tried a skydiving mission in career with a Cessna caravan somewhere around Houston, Texas. I am not sure the specific airport. It loaded me in and as the game was loading I could tell the plane and my character was standing in about 6 inches of water. I was going to try and do the pre-flight anyways but as soon as it finished loading, the mission failed before I could even move an inch. It said that I moved the airplane before completing pre-flight and it was an immediate mission failure and my reputation went down instantly. This is completely unacceptable to be having such huge failures 8 months afdter launch. Seriously Microsoft/Asobo???

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Career mode was all I did for the first few months of MSFS, then, with all the bugs mentioned above (and more) and more importantly, some nice payware aircraft become available, but not available for career mode, I haven’t done career mode since SU2 Beta first came out. It’s surprising that these bugs are still out there at first, but then it becomes less surprising as they have been working on Sim wide issues.

Not to disagree with @Traveler02760 but free flight with a few add-ons is now vastly superior to career mode FOR ME.

Hopefully they start allowing third party stuff to work in career, I’d love to fly freight with PMDG’s 777F using Beyond ATC for ATC and GSX for ground handling. While these products are not perfect at all yet, they are much improved over the default, and would make Career Mode worth using once again.

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Forget about this only things that you bot from Ms store will work in career mode. Why? I have no idea but as a result career mode is not only buggy but unusful. One more thing tho game has still so many bugs… that… no comments

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I bought the PMDG 777F in the marketplace specifically in case this was correct, but MSobo has said they plan on letting add-ons that are available on Marketplace, and set up correctly to work in career mode, into career mode, regardless of whether purchased in Marketplace, or elsewhere, problem is this is not the case yet.