The helicopter missions don't work

I bought the MSFS 2024 simulator a week ago. I was interested in the career mod. I’m interested in helicopter missions. In a short time, I realized that there are serious bugs in the helicopter career mod. You can’t play the helicopter missions.

The biggest problem is that the helicopter ground effect is not good. The helicopters bounce, turn sideways on the landing platforms.

The search and rescue function is unplayable. All the injured and missing people are among the trees, on the mountainside. You can’t approach or land in the area. In addition, the ground effect is not good, the mountainside pushes the helicopter away.

I can’t use the helicopter spraying either. The chemical filling vehicle is under houses or trees. You can’t land. If by chance the vehicle is not under a tree, then I can’t land on the vehicle due to the ground effect.

I don’t know when it will be fixed. The helicopter missions don’t work. Are the developers aware of the helicopter bugs, when will they fix them? The helicopter ground effect bug should have been fixed in the first patch, because it’s unplayable.

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There is a bug already open for it. it was fixed in 2020 and came back in 2024

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I have been an FS user since I was 13, for 22 years now, and I am truly passionate about it. I was equally excited to read about FS2024 and immediately signed up for the pre-order. However, things went wrong from the very start. These things can happen, and there are worse problems in the world, but after some time (and numerous reinstalls, which are still ongoing), the game became somewhat playable. But after today, I’m a bit done with it.

I’ve spent hours flying in career mode to build a hangar with some aircraft. After finally selling some Cessnas, I was able to buy back a helicopter, but it’s completely unusable—it bounces around in the hangar whenever I try to start a mission. Despite this, I went ahead with the mission, hoping it would function normally, but the helicopter bounced on the oil rig before I could even fly for a second. As a result, the game considered it “crashed,” costing me a significant amount of credits to resolve and resulting in a downgrade in my classification. I went from solidly in A to halfway through B—all due to a bug in the game.