So I’ve recently started up Microsoft Flight Simulator on the Xbox Series X, and something that I have noticed is that one of the training missions doesn’t seem to function correctly. The mission I am referring to is “Downwind”, in the “Take-off and Landing” section. In the mission, the player eventually has to lower their plane into a landing, at a 65 kts airspeed. The issue that is happening is that it requires you to be inhumanly accurate, and only shows as complete when you maintain around 66 kts specifically.
I don’t know if it is a bug, hence why I did not report it yet on Zendesk. (I am a new pilot, so I could be missing something; I doubt it though!) I was able to pretty much do the same thing just fine when it came to the “Deadstick Landing” mission, and it was able to detect the 65 kts speed just fine; no inhuman accuracy. It’s just on this one particular mission.
No add-ons or anything are being used. I believe the version is 1.18.12.0.
I’ve also noticed another bug on the PC, approach downwind supposed to start you at 93kts@ 6000ft. 93kts is close but its starting off at 4800ft and around 5200 the objective for altitude goes green. At full throttle by the time you get back to 6000ft after deployment of 10* flaps airspeed down to 60kts. By the time you recover to correct altitude and speed you’re out of time and need to drop airspeed to 65kts for base. Going to idle and full flaps on the short base leg still isn’t enough when you turn for final (which btw going by markers over shoots the runway). On Final you’re now off course enough to miss the airfield completely and still too highand fast for proper GS. almost impossible to get good marks if you fly by insturments readings and too far off targets at launch to recover to proper altitude. Going level at proper speed from where it starts on downwind and making the turns to put you inline on final youll risk hitting the hill or graded a D for effort.
Same here. I’ve noticed that the instructor tells me that I’m at 6000 ft when I’m are only at 5000ft (and climbing) at the beginning of the lesson. Thus I’m already docked for being too low from the start! Since the plane is climbing from 5k ft, the airspeed is already decreasing so by the time I’m instructed to “reduce speed to 80 kts” I’m already too slow (and still not at 6k ft). This requires me to then increase throttle to try to achieve 80kts but then I’m instructed to deploy 10 degree of flaps which of course slows the plane way down. If it was even possible to get to 6k and 80kts by the end of the leg, I’m then asked to reduce throttle to 1400rpm and hit 60kts. I can’t seem to do this without increasing flaps again and almost completely killing the power. Anyway this seems off to me. I too am a new pilot but this seems like a bug…
I managed to get an A grade after trying a few things. While the instructor is talking go to full throttle and flaps, you’ll get to altitude pretty quick. I managed to keep the light green at 5800’ went back to 10% flap and throttled down to reach 80kts. On base leg throttle back slightly but maintain altitude to start letting airspeed bleed off to 65kts. On turn to final you should be around 6000’ or where ever you leveled off to get the green. I then went to full flaps and idle and essentially did a steep dead stick approach. Use throttle and flaps to control airspeed at 65kts after you start your decent. I found that the sim is looking more for smooth movements with out a lot of corrective actions also so try not to yank the stick around too much to make corrections.
Hi fellowes, I’m also having problems to get an A rating after completing this training mission. Seems to be nearly impossible (I did nearly 25 approaches to get an A grade, my max was ~7700 pts). But it’s not the objective to get the green checkmarks in order to accomplish the mission with an A grade, it should be more doing the things you have to do in the mission but then you’ll end with an C grade. So it’s definetivly a very buggy mission. I can confirm the “workarounds” FightsY described but I never got an A grade at the end. So here Asobo has to do a fix … either get the plane in the correct starting position at 6000ft, or correct the announcing and point calculation (and the green check objectives) to the situation delivered (5000ft) …
Then it’ll be significantly easier to accomplish the mission with an A grade …
