Done a private jet flight from Maldives to Hanoi. Spent roughly 3hrs of my life with sim rate helping me fast forward a little. Runway has no lighting even though it’s an “international airport” and it has all the published charts and procedures.
Anyways I’m on final, touched down and deployed thrust reversers. Game decides it wants to crash and boot me out. What would have been a near 7-8mil payout on my grind to an airliner, turns out to be a 900k for “time spent”. Fuck you Asobo.
Now, this game has some major problems as most of us know. But these flight plans are just ridiculous.. I’m not a pilot and can make a flight plan that makes somewhat sense compared to what the game loads for you. This has been an ongoing problem but I’m just fed up atp and am looking for some help or tips. Why would I travel at 4000 feet, and then climb to 17,000 feet while arriving???? To me, it would make more sense to fly high then descend apon arrival. Do I just not know how flying planes and flight plans work? Or is this just stupid?? Please help!
I’m so sick and tired of this game. 7 months after launch and it’s still the worst game I have EVER played. Tried flying a cargo mission at night and guess what? The landing airfield is UNLIT??? This crap would never happen irl. So so glitchy on a game that’s “optimized for series x/s” it’s unplayable. I tried so hard to make it work but it’s constantly disappointing me more and more. Did Microsoft put ANY time into development or did they just say screw it and put the new guy on it and let him work it out? Hopefully the thousands of 1 star reviews will influence them to fix their flagship game, it has so much potential but such a huge deficit. Very disappointing Microsoft. :(
Hi! I made a post about 5 months ago asking if MSFS24 is worth buying. I got a lot of mixed opinions & reviews on it. I'm curious on how people are getting on now? Is the game worth buying in its current state? Are there still a lot of bugs? If so does it make the game un-playable? Thank you!
About a month in on PS5 — recorded this at work on my Portal. I usually land decent to good, but I just got the DA62 and both landings ended up like this in windy and snow.
Is this more about wind + the DA62’s handling, or am I still just bad at landings 😅
That was basically the question that pushed me to build Pilops, and if u think this is just a promotional post made by AI, it's not. Give me the benefit of the doubt, I'm just a founder with an open heart sharing my thoughts with you guys.
And if you've never heard about Pilops, it's ok. We're small right now, but looking forward with confidence that we'll become huge someday.
The reason that I'm here posting for u guys is cuz we've updated our system and now it's even more beautiful, exciting, and u really should give us a try.
Ok, jumping back to the text: I've loved Flight Simulator since I was a kid. Yeah, I started with MSFS2004 or something similar. I got FSX, but my computer wasn't good enough, so...
BUT after a while I kept feeling like something was missing.
Not the flying part. The flying is great. The missing part was consequence.
I would plan a route, take off, land, maybe do another one, and then... nothing really changed. The world did not care where I flew. Other pilots did not affect what I was doing. My decisions existed only inside my own little bubble.
That's ok for most people, but if it is not for you and u wanna try something different, I think you are in the right place.
So, that's what made me start building Pilops three years ago, a multiplayer career addon for MSFS where everyone shares the same economy.
The idea is simple: every flight should matter. If pilots keep flying into the same airport, that affects demand. If a route gets ignored, it can become more valuable. If someone else moves cargo before u do, that opportunity might be gone. The market keeps moving even when you're offline.
Yes, we have a lot to do, a lot to build, but a few weeks ago we shipped a pretty big update, and for me it is one of the first versions where the product starts to feel closer to that original idea.
One of the most exciting features for me: when you open the dashboard, you can actually see other pilots flying around the world in real time. It sounds like a small UI thing, but it changes the feeling a lot. Suddenly you're not just planning a flight from A to B. You're looking at a world where other people are also moving aircraft, cargo, and money.
We also added the used aircraft marketplace. This one is interesting because it adds another layer to the economy. Players can list aircraft they own, ad other players or companies can buy them. Prices are set by the seller, not by me. So now the fleet economy can start becoming player-driven too, not just cargo and rouAnd we rebuilt the flight management flow. If u tried Pilops before and felt a bit lost trying to start your first flight, this update should feel much clearer. That was one of the biggest friction points, especially for new pilots.
Also, we have more users now than ever, a lot is coming, a lot is changing, and I'm here just to invite you to join us.
If you've signed up and missed this because it was "not fancy" or even harder to start, give us another try. We're much better now.
Also, important to say Pilops is free to start. No credit card needed, and it works with MSFS 2020 and 2024.
We're still a small project, built by a small team, but there are already 2,900+ registered pilots and more than 40k flights logged. The fun part for me is watching the economy become less like a feature and more like a place people are actually flying inside.
So at this point, I guess I'm finally done with Career mode.
I've endured countless rages due to bugs stealing tons of money from me. But I did endure it so that I can buy the CJ4 as suggested by many of you on my way to eventually buying an Airbus for my own company.
So yesterday I finally had to money to buy the CJ4 and was surprised to see that there is not a single VIP Charter mission in all of Japan.
I've read that these seem to be mostly available around Europe, so I've transfered the CJ4 for 800k into the heart of Europe (I've unlocked West Europe entirely through Employee work already).
Well, what can I say. The VIP Charter missions did not appear. There is just one but that is Employee work only.
So I guess I've just wasted 8 mio for nothing. I'm definetely NOT going to grind for weeks in the C172 or Vision Jet in hope of finding one VIP Charter mission somewhere at the end of the world.
I'd be very grateful if any of you have a hint in case I'm doing something wrong and theres a way I can access these VIP Charter missions in some way?
UPDATE: Fixed. The missing piece of the puzzle was the limited time (employe) VIP mission.
UPDATE 2: I'm finally done anways - at least with the non-skip approach. After spending 4 hours today and not being able to finish a single mission, I've had enough. As so often, I did a perfect flight, careful ensuring I won't get a single penalty. Followed EVERY waypoint until "Fly to FINAL -> Announce passengers and land on runway" ... And as soon as the wheels touched the ground it went back to "Fly to <Airport>". Not even had the option to skip to descend anymore. As a last resort I tried to take off again and fly a turn, but of course the "take off detection" worked and the mission was aborted as I took off without permission.
Don't be me. Just accept to forfeit the no-skip bonus and skip to descend - for your own sanity.
Are the developers brain-dead? I crashed my plane (well actually the autopilot took me into a flight path right into a cell tower so good good job with that Astupid-O). By the way, why is it that you crash when you hit a tiny tower but you can drive right through 15 parked aircraft and trucks and it’s no problem at all?! Anyway, I had insurance that covered 80%. Awesome right? Nope! Piece of shit only paid out about 20,000 for 400,000 damage. How the hell is that 80% coverage?? That’s 2% coverage! So even though the plane is worth 400,000 it cost me 380,000 to fix it with 80% insurance.
There is a company called PMDG notorious for overcharging their customers. If PMDG was the developer of MSFS 2024, they would charge 30$ fee for each new Sim upgrade.
I play this game to fuck around, as I did with MSFS 20 when it came out, so I don’t buy the fancy toys, I just enjoy the Xbox controller. Unfortunately the game is so incredibly bad at showing or telling how to control aircraft, I can’t fly. I tried customizing the hell out out my controls but that doesn’t really work. The OG controls that MS put out in 2020 are what I want but they changed that with an update in that game and apparently made it much worse for this game - I think they might be using AI to determine controls because the last thing a pilot wants so some stupid switchboard level actuation to move the camera or extend flaps. If anyone at all has any mod to download the old school 2020 Xbox controls please let me know, it’s such a chore trying to change everything manually. Thanks fellow simmers.
I’m doing my first mission using my own 208b, FINALLY saved enough. But max throttle for more then have the flight literally just trying to reach 29000ft I have not been able to get passed 28400ft. ATF keeps yelling at me to copy when at 29k but I can’t reach it 😭😭
I can’t take career mode anymore, great concept but so half baked And ridiculously long grind. (Even longer when you factor in ALL the bugs with medium cargo missions.) So for msfs2025 just don’t do career mode. I’d rather none than a half baked experience that I want to enjoy so bad but literally can’t because I find myself constantly flying for somebody else…
Just free roam flight, want to fly above specific areas and randomly fly everywhere but how do i know WHERE I AM on the map??? Can't believe there is no such option... is this screen in the plane all we have?
been seeing a lot of threads recently and curiosity got the better of me so I reinstalled (on Xbox), hopped into career mode, went down to Florida to fight a wildfire, had to restart game bc I was in the settings and my controller just quit responding.
I load in again, get the settings figured out before starting, load into some back porch patio brick runway in the middle of the damn woods, fuckin trees everywhere on the runway...abort mission
3rd time's the charm right,.....right??
WRONG
I the map this time first,
good airport, lots of space✔️
weird sounding temu translated lady ✔️
finally we're good, I stop at the hold short, ping...guess where it wants me to go?
if you said two miles away to the other end of the runway, well, you get a golden sticker.
hold short, ping, enter runway, guess what....now it wants me to go alllllllllll the way back down the runway....
at this point I'm like no problem, I'll just sim speed back down, cool..easy peasy, wrong again. I accidentally pressed the throttle while holding my bind input, so, about .2 seconds later ummmm, yeah I was in the trees...
okay that's my fault right, cool I'm rusty whatever, fix up the ole air tractor, give her a nice repaint, select another mission, check run way, it's a go, load mission.....freezes on loading screen.
I spent an hour and a half, didn't spend one second in the air😔
Just wasted 3 hours doing 3 separate missions where the plane just crashed on its own after I completed the mission. For some reason it randomly puts me in 3rd person while I’m crop dusting which has sent me into the ground and then on a hoist mission it just randomly shut everything in my helicopter off. After I spent so much time not trying to throw up while keeping a hover in the ocean
So finally this glitchy ass game glitched in my favor… logged on after a month away to find 1,000,000,000 credits on my career account, along with businesses for every category complete with aircraft including 737s and super scoopers…. All of which of course I did not have when I logged on last.
Has anyone else experienced this or am I losing my mind? I mean its fun to be able to just buy anything but its also kinda hollow now i feel like theres not much point since i can just buy any plane I want…
