Just wasted ten hours of my time trying to earn the Gold Rush achievement. I never once used any kind of assistance. Never used back on track even a single time on this or any other Bush Trip I’ve tried. I even immediately closed the VFR map which force-opens itself at the start of every flight, and flew with nothing more than the navlog open. (I reopened the VFR map one single time, by mistake, on one single flight for about 5-10 seconds and then closed it again.)
I finished every single flight successfully and sequentially with no assistance (you can’t even enable assistance on Bush Flights), with no autopilot (there isn’t even an autopilot on that plane), and hand-flying everything without any use of anything except the timer and the (frequently awful) navlog instructions. I only crashed a single time enroute, restarted that single leg immediately and successfully completed it on the second attempt, too.
Every leg ended with a message indicating it had been successfully completed. I also hit continue to go to the next leg on every one before exiting Flight Sim. And the Bush Trip shows as 100% completed in the Bush Trip menu.
But did I get the achievement at the end of many, many hours of effort to jump through the hoops Asobo wanted me to? Of course not.
And it’s not just this one that’s buggy. I also completed the Balkans bush trip months ago, got the achievement for it and the flights to achieve it still show in my log book, but if I look in the Bush Trip menu it claims the Balkans Bush Trip hasn’t even been started, let alone completed.
And then there’s the My Way achievement, for which I have done literally dozens of flights that should qualify me, but which still hasn’t unlocked all this time later.
Seriously, Asobo, your entire achievement system, mission tracking and log book system is beyond hopeless. If you can’t be bothered to fix this stuff, just take the achievements out. They are nothing more than a random lottery as-is, and serve to do nothing more than annoy – they CERTAINLY don’t add to the entertainment value even slightly.