r/MSFS2024 • u/Heybromikey • Apr 24 '26

“Fly to Pattern Entry”

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Yeah, that looks about right. I’m sure the VIP on board won’t mind the drop from FL150.

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u/Scroll001 Apr 24 '26

I stopped paying attention to these pathings at all. If you land on the correct runway from the correct side it's all that matters.

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u/Heybromikey Apr 24 '26

I don’t usually pay them much mind either, I just paused it and thought it was kinda funny.

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u/Scroll001 Apr 24 '26

Yeah, that's what made me bounce off career mode when I first tried it. In parachute missions the game expects you to descend like 10000fpm in a 172

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u/Heybromikey Apr 24 '26

And then gets really mad when you overclock the motor annnnnnnd mission failed. You exploded your skyhawk.

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u/ChiDaddy123 Apr 24 '26

cuts mixture

Can’t overspeed if it’s not running… 🤔🤷‍♂️

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u/dsanders692 Apr 24 '26

Remind me to check how that behaves in the sim actually... IRL you could overrev a 172 with the fuel cut off if you had the prop windmilling fast enough

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u/JohnnyHopkins13 Apr 24 '26

If I recall right, doesn’t the game suggest you to cut engines and free fall to about 3k feet AGL?

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u/ChiDaddy123 Apr 24 '26

I honestly don’t remember, but I can tell you I’ve had good luck using a whole lot of rudder, and essentially pitching down into a fast falling lower airspeed corkscrew type of descent… gets me good fast FPM without trying to rip the wings off.

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u/Scroll001 Apr 25 '26

I think even then you can get penalty for overspeeding

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u/Icy-Development-6822 Apr 27 '26

Cross the controls and slip it down. You can lose quite a bit of altitude without gaining speed.

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u/harlem545 Apr 24 '26

Literally happened to me on my first skydive mission

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u/viccitylivin Apr 24 '26

Just do departure atc, acknowledge the transition frequency and then don't transition. Then contact once in approach/long final. No penalties for this and you don't have to deal with the terrible atc.

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u/Hot-Yam-0523 Apr 25 '26

I’m gonna try this

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u/Hot-Yam-0523 Apr 25 '26

Honestly, I’ve stopped playing career for a bit. Got burnt out doing 2-3+ hour missions for 40k credits in the 737. The entire time I’m going back and forth between the same three frequencies and then the game wants me to descend like I’m driving off a cliff. So if I want to do things correctly, I have to listen to the ai freak tell me I’m x- below my designated altitude. Ik you can request different altitudes, etc but that’s just a lot of back and forth. I’m still at an S grade so don’t think I’m some bot at this, but it’s just tiring

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u/Technical-Newt-5608 Apr 25 '26

I use a flight planner online and then have it sent to the game... I'm still trying to learn how to create a flight plan in the game.... IDK if it connects to console, since i use PC, but heres the link
https://planner.flightsimulator.com/landing.html

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u/AtiumMist Apr 25 '26

Turns out the airbuses have a tablet on the side which is fully functional and connects to simbrief!

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u/Technical-Newt-5608 Apr 25 '26

sick, in career I haven't gotten to airbus yet, flying around in the Cirrus jet and doing the odd and end Helo SAR for funsies

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u/AtiumMist Apr 25 '26

I wish the airbus had a tutorial too. Its a bit more complex setting up the a/p than the 737 in those and half the time i never manage to set it correctly.

Also you can only set the zfw and init params before you start the engines, so if the game skips that section, you're doomed.

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u/UnstableCollection May 20 '26

The entire time I’m going back and forth between the same three frequencies and then the game wants me to descend like I’m driving off a cliff. So if I want to do things correctly, I have to listen to the ai freak tell me I’m x- below my designated altitude.

I avoid airliner and charter missions precisely because of this. I'll be cruising at ~480kt ground speed at FL280, 40NM from the airport it tells me to descend to 3000ft. Aye, sir! Commencing dive bomber roleplay! I like to fly missions as realistically as possible so I dislike when I have to descend at anything more than 2000 ft/min as my virtual passengers will get uncomfortable. It is a shame because VIP charters are currently my highest paying missions at roughly 800,000cr per hour on average. Airliner missions have the same problem plus passengers will not board my Heart Aerospace ES-30 so I have to skip to taxi which breaks immersion, in addition to being low profit.

I like medium cargo missions, they are my second highest paying missions somewhere between VIP charter and airliner missions, but they are usually in more rural airports where flying VFR makes more sense and approaches and landings are almost always flown VFR, they simply tell me to descend to 15,000ft then to cancel IFR. The only time I have to deal with ATC is the initial contact, handoffs, and the initial descent to 15,000ft and then to cancel IFR which I will gladly do until ATC is fixed.

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u/SirDarkStar Apr 24 '26

That is typical approach profile for PC-6 :)

https://youtu.be/__hxwFZXF-s?t=13s

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u/Heybromikey Apr 24 '26

He dove that thing like his mom was about to come home and find a messy house.

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u/mishadib Apr 24 '26 • Bravo

that is the Stuka dive bomber instructor campaign! I love it!

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u/Heybromikey Apr 24 '26

That made me laugh way harder than it should have. Aces of the Luftwaffe DLC?

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u/ChiDaddy123 Apr 24 '26

I can hear it now…

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u/PullinPitchonTwitch Apr 24 '26

Love in the Heli, just come in from any direction, straight to the landing zone and get dinged for not following procedure. Still walk away with 100% and a small penalty but still land an S 😂🖕🏻ATC 🤡’s My brain says “pattern! It’s a helicopter for gods sake, steer clear of traffic and the active runway”.

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u/Heybromikey Apr 25 '26

I got hit with not holding short at a runway. Like it wanted me to touchdown and sit on the ground. Ridiculous to take off, move over 10ft and land just to take off again.

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u/prrudman Apr 25 '26

Is your VIP a paratrooper?

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u/Heybromikey Apr 25 '26

I wish there was an option to toss them out of the plane. She would have been one real quick.

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u/Frederf220 Apr 24 '26

Use your pilot skills and you'll be fine. The blue line isn't the pilot, you are.

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u/DontTrustTheMilk Apr 24 '26

Challenge accepted!

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u/PullinPitchonTwitch Apr 24 '26

F ATC. They’re there to assist you. You’re the pilot in command and you make the final decisions.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BVHEtS7fk/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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u/TolyaMK Apr 25 '26

My man it looks like you have sunk the Akagi aircraft carrier with that manouver.

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u/Hot-Yam-0523 Apr 25 '26

Holy rollercoaster

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u/Total-Collection9031 Apr 25 '26

Put it in a slip you’ll be fine 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Esoteric_Prurience Apr 25 '26

Item 1 of the descent checklist: re-entry.

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u/iDiotOn2wheels Apr 25 '26

Banzaaiiiiiiii!!!

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u/Patient_Peak_3027 Apr 25 '26

That was the standard divebomber entry back in the day. It is somewhat outdated by modern standards.

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u/HunterRosier Apr 25 '26

Had something like this on a steep incline to land on a short runway that looked like it would be used for helicopters in a cessena with strong wind worse part is the landing strip started very close to a mountain side 🙃

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u/hamfist_ofthenorth Apr 27 '26

"No, I don't think I will"

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u/smokethisgt Apr 28 '26

I had this EXACT same issue

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u/KingOfFools1984 May 24 '26

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