MSFS 2024 Career - My PAIN, My ADVICE

[@skydriver5709]

Even though you're flying in career mode, go into the settings from the main menu and turn on Live traffic. This will keep updating missions available in the career world map. I found myself doing jobs in an area, and quickly running out of jobs. They weren't refreshing. I found someone else having the same issue, and that fix. Now I have missions everywhere, all the time.

[@rolloutjg]

does live traffic mean... settings, general, online, "aircraft traffic type: real-time online"?

[@skydriver5709]

@@rolloutjg I think it was settings, general, online, "Air Traffic in career", but I don't remember for certain. Turn both on just in case.

[@zenistfpv]

importantly.. Turn it on EVERY TIME. It defaults to Off everytime the game is restarted.

[@skydriver5709]

@@zenistfpv Oh, you're right. I hadn't even checked, because the last time I did it it populated the map with lots of missions and I hadn't played much. Good eye.

[@JohnVanderbeck]

Sadly doesn't work for me. Just tried it but I still have whole areas, popular areas, without a single mission in freelance or employee mode. Like Rio, and Sau Paulo, two huge tourist areas, not one single mission anywhere near either one of them for me. Was hoping to find VIP missions there. Seemed logical to me :(

[@MikeBolitho]

Two things: One, I should have watched this before starting my career haha. The changes to flight plan will make life so much better. Two, Sim Rate has four levels BELOW normal speed. So you can spam sim rate down and then hit sim rate up four times and you will be back and normal speed.

[@traderoracle]

I can't run VIP missions because the VIP himself clipped out of the plane, and his head is EMBEDDED INTO THE CONCRETE

[@kardoskuti]

Same. Also it is massively ruining your reputation without you doing a single thing. Basically unplayable.

[@sofajockeyUK]

Beechcraft Bonanza? It's a thing.

[@daxwax1]

@@traderoracle lulz and zi thought it was bad that I couldn't inspect my tail wheel cos that was stuck in the runway

[@ricardoa1661]

" it's a feature " 🤣

[@sofajockeyUK]

@@ricardoa1661 Economy Class...

[@Frankestein01nl]

If you need soft-runway-landings for the agri-flights, just take a flightseeing from a soft/grass runway and once you achieve takeoff, just land again, take off agian, land again etc.. they will all count. (ofcourse, the guests will complain, but when eventually you complete the flightseeing or first flight, you still get your rating but you will have the extra landings going towards the agri-license) Thanks for the Tips, Squirrell, unfortunately, i've got a flightseeing company already... **derp** Loving the career mode as well.

[@Aleksandar6ix]

Omg, that is such a gamer mentality! It's not like you need 100 landings man. Just get it by doing!

[@sirkus34]

Legend! Worked great! Just watched squirrel do it! Thank you!

[@rybak04]

Stream proved you right sir!!

[@Baegel]

Just watched Squirrel do it on his stream! GG!

[@Pipo12235]

GG brother!! Just saw squirrel try this on stream! Great progress from this 😄

[@Hartbreak1]

A small correction there. To start your first company as a light cargo company you need 35K to cover both the subsidized Cessna and the 10K for the license for the cargo company. Still worth it for sure over a flightseeing company. Cargo jobs are more readily available in a lot more places and pay better. Before you buy your plane though look for a location nearby to where you want to base your plane that has a cargo job available. Take note of that airport and then buy your plane and place it there. That way you can start recouping your investment right away without having to pay for plane transfers right at the start. Also you don’t need to stop the EFB timer each time to check for changes to your sim rate. The timer will change its pacing each time you change the sim rate. Just start the timer whenever and keep it running. The timer will also show if you change the EFB to the map screen so you don’t need to keep it on the timer screen. Tips for sim rate. Like mentioned in the video the autopilot can cope with 2X most of the time so it’s the only sim rate setting I would fly without supervision. Sim rate at 4X is good as long as there’s no turbulence and you don’t need to turn much. For any significant turns go back down to 2X. Sim rate 8X is more risky so only do it on cruise, without turbulence and avoid any turns at all at 8X, monitor the plane closely to make sure it can actually handle that sim rate because some planes aren’t able to. Sim rate 16X is only for cruise in perfect conditions and not all aircraft will be able to handle it. Even the aircraft that can handle it need constant monitoring. Do 8X and 16X at your own risk.

[@simboodamn]

I found this to be of great value. Thanks for taking the time to detail everything. It shows that there are still a lot a work to do from MS on this aspect of the sim. Good job and happy flying

[@Aleksandar6ix]

There are two major changes I would want before I fully dive into career... disable default ATC, and be able to plan my own weight and balance / fuel load

[@apache65789]

don't worry about fuel just bind refuel aircaft in the controls and you have unlimited fuel

[@gfallda1]

@@apache65789yeah until you get an error and cant finish the mission then. Happens every time

[@mcam707]

@@apache65789 What kind of missions are you running into fuel issues on?

[@apache65789]

​@@mcam707 737 vip mission between Dubai and malagar I ran out of fuel either due to the strong head winds or maybe the apu was on the whole time also happens allot with the passenger missions with the dhc2 beaver on long flight passenger mission's

[@scottr7550]

Fuel cheaters!🤣 use simbrief or land at different airport if low fuel, #realasitgets

[@unwisestudio6020]

for your sim rate : press minus util the minimum (1/16th) then press 4 times => 1/8th => 1/4th => 1/2 => 1x

[@someguy5035]

There is no getting back to 1x once you go either direction. You're either at slow mo or 1.25x.

[@blitz3391]

Your career in MSF2024 : *Gets excited* Curse at the Cessna 172 *Fast forward to get passed the 172* *Gets new plane* *New plane is also bugged* *Leave it on the shelf for 2 months*

[@Owlstronaut]

@@blitz3391 is it still not fixed?

[@blitz3391]

@@Owlstronaut I don't know, haven't touched it since. I went back on 2020.

[@TheWappa]

@@Owlstronaut Works relatively okay for me. But it still isn't remotely perfect. you will experience bugs and it will be annoying. but it's much better then most portray it

[@podbyte-83]

As for insurance payments, it was stated on the official Flight Simulator forum, the server-side patch has been released on December, 6th which changes calculation of payments for insurance to be based on daily flight hours of your planes instead of total flight hours (implementation logic before the patch). Probably you can buy a couple of planes after this and re-check whether it alleviates "passive income pain".

[@chrissenberg5990]

My employer 50 gs me 1200 real life shit

[@AverageMustang]

You should be be able to hire pilots and assign them to different aircraft. They'll each have their own certification, level, and rep. The salary you pay them is decided on their level(experience) and rep.

[@eththebeast2059]

@@AverageMustang how? I haven’t been able to find a menu for it

[@AverageMustang]

@@eththebeast2059 You cant, I just think it would be a cool feature rather than just turning on crew

[@MrC0MPUT3R]

Sounds like just another thing to get bugged out and ruin the game at this point

[@Brett8848]

exactly the same as in Euro Truck Simulator, hopefully they will implement this in FS2024

[@nathans8205]

@Brett8848 I'm sure they modding community will come up with something for career mode. It will eventually be a good experience.

Thank you for your advices. They will definitely help me. Regarding the fuel: When you prepare for the mission, there's 'Management' button in the 'Aircraft' rectangle. It also has checkmarks for the Fuel and Weight and another button for 'Change Aircraft' (like at 27:36). In the management, there's Fuel tab to choose and you can load whatever fuel amount you want. And yes, it costs the credits.

[@sybeck1823]

You can see winds by clicking on 'advanced' in bottom right map options.

[@ogaduby]

until you can't and need to restart the sim

[@PebbleTrader]

Thank you!

[@MrNickdennis]

You can also pull it up on the garmin. I think it’s “PFD options” or something like that

[@wolfgangernst1336]

Thanks - a lot of very useful information. The best tip for me at the moment is the advice to reduce the taxi speed (C 208) with the mixer setting. It's stupid to control the taxi speed with the brakes. What happened to me: During an endless taxi ride at the gigantic Charles de Gaulle Airport, the brakes failed after 10 minutes of taxiing, which seens to be realistic if they overheat. As a result, I crashed into the hangar when trying to stop at the parking spot. Funny and frustrating, but probably realistic.

[@veltriix]

@@wolfgangernst1336 well the condition lever only really affects how low the turbine idles, at high idle it idles at a higher engine RPM which makes you taxi like crazy but in the real world with PT6 engines you mostly taxi in “beta” it’s were the blades are basically flat, so fast you get the initial momentum going you then go to ground idle but then if you taxi too fast before use the breaks go into beta which slows you down or maintains your speed. So in the sim if you want to use the high idle, when you go into high idle at ground idle power you will move like a banshee, and to save the brakes go past the detent on the throttle to the beta range, that should maintain your taxi speed but if you go even faster go even more back but just before you hit the reverse stop. But I would taxi with low idle and it makes taxi more natural to a C172 where you need to add power to start rolling, and it makes no difference on take off because like I said it’s only how low the engine idles.

[@Floo2o24]

@@wolfgangernst1336 irl you taxi on idle until roughly the desired speed and feather the prop until you want to go faster again, maybe you can do this in the game aswell?

[@LRSTGS]

I bought a Cub to do floghtseeing, every time I finish a mission the expenses to repair the landing gear wipes out all of the income from the mission. My landings are pretty smooth, but I'm new to FS so maybe not perfect. Either way, my company is now bankrupt...with all the other fualts with the game, I just stopped playing. Not accessible enough to new players on platform.

[@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi]

Yep agree, ive been playing flight sim since windows 3.11..... so a long time, i can and do know how to fly in sim and this version is entirely broken and rubbish. I can have massive turbulance and flight smoothness is perfect, literally kiss the ground on landing and its the same. fking garnage game

[@ramborabbit9590]

@@LRSTGS I’ve been having this issue.. it’s costing like 40k to repair yet I can only bring in 10-15k a mission…

[@cameronlopez5359]

When I started my first company, it did the same to me, then I spawned on a runway to short to gain take off speed 60kts and crashed into a tree. Was lvl 40, had most of the left side licenses and was a $406k bill to repair the plane. I restarted my career and here we are . Lvl 29 with cargo buisness getting 30k for that which is 5k more than flight seeing and apparently in this videos lol I can make over 100k each mission. Something’s glitched out and it’s pissing me off cus I spend 280k for a new plane for the cargo buisness and I get 30k a mission . Like that’s the point of even starting that business then fml

[@sand450rstar]

Once you accept the job before you click "Fly" the upper right hand side of your screen theres a management tab click that. That will show your weights of fuel and cargo and you can buy fuel that way.

[@Torgonius]

That way is bugged. After you buy fuel, when you get in your plane, you'll have ~43% fuel no matter how much you bought and paid for. If you restart the flight, THEN the plane will have the fuel you purchased.

[@Aleksandar6ix]

Thanks, had no idea!

[@RB-H]

You can also use the keybind to add fuel

[@mojojojo11811]

I had the TBM 930 for my VIP company. It worked fine for a few days and then the aircraft became completely bugged. I couldn't get the mechanic to check it or get insurance. Every menu interaction resulted in 'an unexpected error has occurred'. I had to delete career mode and start over.

[@RSProduxx]

I threw 700k out the window for a Beechcraft Bonanza ... 0% fuel bug and can´t even sell it ... means grinding money back up and praying that another plane will work. I decided to give it a break for a few weeks and see if at least these hard game breakers get fixed asap. I can live with a few pathing bugs and penalties outta nowhere ...

[@mojojojo11811]

@@RSProduxx I had the same fuel bug issue with the TBM. You can work around it by going into 'free flight', select your fuel bugged plane and load a free flight in it with fuel. Then quit the free flight and go back to career mode and your plane will now have fuel in it. You have to do this each time you start the simulator. I haven't tried the hotkey method on a fuel bugged plane but that may work too.

[@RSProduxx]

@@mojojojo11811 no, hotkey won´t work. "refuel" not at all, "repair and refuel" will work but crash the mission after a few seconds, because technically the plane was filled up twice ... I´ll try the free flight method, thanks for the hint.

[@RSProduxx]

@@mojojojo11811 didn´t work

[@jamesp1389]

Wow seems really unfinished judging by your comments. Unfortunate as I was looking forward to this career mode especially.

[@tvrubenjo4010]

I needed to land on a very short runway that had trees right in front of the runway. So needed to fly over that and could not brake fast enough on the tiny runway. So yeah. The inspection of the flightpath would be a very good idea.

[@tvrubenjo4010]

Also you can see mission money on the earth screen. There is a menu (press g i think) that shows all the missions for how many credits they go.

[@bartchelin]

@@tvrubenjo4010 you can slow down faster with elevators up and heavy braking after you got the speed down enough to not lift off or rotate. Heavy braking and gentle on the elevators should do the trick

[@cabdude2]

I was cleared to land on a runway with a 30 knot crosswind. I chose instead to land into the wind on a short cross runway. Unprofessional behaviour penalty. Until it’s patched it’s a bundle of frustration.

[@theairplaneguy9640]

the missions are ai generated, some of them are literally impossible

[@Ivellios23]

I was watching another KZbinr and right after purchasing his first company (freight) his plane was lodged into the hangar walls, so he had to skip to runway and it left him in a funky position. Seeing yours and his pains have left me deciding to hold off on it till the stuff gets fixed, knowing Microsoft, this could be indefinite.

[@theairplaneguy9640]

do not buy this game

[@debonairgaming3348]

Your tip on how to add fuel literally saved this game for me.. It kept starting me out with less than 15% fuel and I was having to skip constantly just to try to make it to the landing. My last mission before I saw this video I aborted because I only loaded in with 1% fuel so I ran out literally on my initial takeoff climb. I was ready to throw in the towel, now I've uncovered most major cities across the US thanks to the fast travel option, and happily finished multiple missions with PLENTY of fuel. Thank you so much for posting this video!!!

[@WishingForSerenity]

I think a lot of people go about career mode the wrong way, seeing it as a challenge to make as many credits as fast as possible. I'd say, DON'T start a company as soon as you can. Get a certification, fly a bunch of missions. When you're bored with those and are reasonably familiar with them, get another certification and do other missions. Keep saving up credits, and, more importantly, experience in different planes without the headaches of finances and maintenance until you found what you enjoy and can buy and fly the plane you want, not just the one you can afford. People get themselves stuck in a grind that way because all they can fly is that one plane doing just the one type of mission for too little money. Then, they finally saved up for that Caravan which they have no experience with, damage it in the first few flights, can't afford to fix it, and are back grinding in that first Cessna 172 to pay the maintenance bills. Don't forget, it's a FLIGHT simulator first, which is probably why you bought it. Don't get too obsessed with the business simulator part.

[@coltsevers5349]

Crazy to see the small airport I grew up near pop up as your destination at @24:07. KEYQ is Weiser, located near Houston, TX. I have a ton of fond memories of it and so do many others who lived in the area. The runway was only a few hundred feet away from HWY 290. You could see small planes coming in on final just over your head, maybe 50-100 ft, while you were driving. Always had me excited as a kid. Sadly they shut this air strip down a few years back, it's now a business park, however its memory still exists on MSFS

[@hunterjessup]

@@coltsevers5349 This was my starting point airport! I grew up off Huffmeister rd right next to Weiser. Many childhood memories of Cessnas shutting off their engines coming in for their final approach, just gliding their way down. That and the legendary Robinson R-22 that always seemed to be hovering around the area.

[@coltsevers5349]

@hunterjessup small world!

[@coltsevers5349]

@@hunterjessup Weiser is a huge reason I fell into aviation, at least simming. Especially gave me an appreciation for the small plane

[@spisarik08]

I came here to say the same! Strange that MSFS still has Weiser despite it being shutdown. I guess someone didn’t read the NOTAMs 😅

[@momo-i1t3d]

You actually can see how the Wind is going on the Map... You ll have to get back to the screen where you can select a Mission and then in the bottom left corner you can select different Map modes and also see where the Wind is going. But it's certainly more complicated than it needs to be. All in all a really good Video really helped me from certain doom.

[@zwaagdijker]

Watch out with the tornado scientific mission it will ruined your reputation lots crash after the finish the mission (i did with a S rating) when you go back to HQ you crash and no money and NO reputation> dont do that mission ^^

[@jekanyika]

I had that issue. I thought it didn't register because the game crashed after I completed it but my rep was at C the next time I played. Tbf it wasn't too hard to get it back up to S.

[@Swami504]

RUINED my near-perfect "S" rating. Dropped me down to "C".

[@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi]

Same, and the stupid ai voices that are like microsfot windows 95 voices.. . ruins the game. I do not reccomend this stupid game its a waste of time.

[@FUDWarrior]

The mission is working now. I did it twice. Only thing is, that the marker is not pointing to the Tornado. Just go to the marker and then fly to the tornado on the right.

[@timnelson7043]

This was definitely a help for me. I’m brand new at the flight simulator so learning has been a struggle. This was definitely very helpful. A little too late but very helpful.

[@deanna6359]

Thank you so much, this was very helpful! I had just set up my first company and my bought my first plane. I placed it at my chosen airport expecting freelance jobs to appear from there , I didn't realise it actually had to be transported to the location of the job, I didn't even see any freelance jobs until I unlocked an area over 100 miles away from my home airport. I think it would be great if there was an option to free-fly our planes to the jobs, just like we can do in Neofly.

[@dmiannay]

What a superb video, Squirrel! Some excellent tips for the beginner. This definitely helps. Looking forward to the updates this coming week. Turbulence is indeed a bear 🤢

[@AvallachEmrys]

your videos literally never disappoint. You've solved four of my issues in one video, and you're really great at explaining things. Thanks, Squirrel!

[@ChristyKrohne]

I need to SAVE this video. Something tells me this is going to come in handy. Very handy. I've been putting off stsrting Career Mode for some time now. Mostly because I'm a Novice and very inexperienced when it comes to MSFS in general.😢😢 I've been watching videos of other simmers like yourself for some time now. I finally started Career Mode yesterday but only finished one single flight so far. 🎉 So, Thanks for all your uploads with all the Advice/Tips included in your videos. I enjoy the videos.

[@wolframmeyer6586]

Thank you for most valuable information shared! it answered all my questions on where to go next in career and more too!

[@Gdub33]

Dumb glitch lowered my pilot rating by almost half. I agreed to a flight seeing flight and the gate had a tree in it for some reason. Mission loads and i start walking to remove the blocks and pop the plane roatates because of the tree and it says mission failed. Was very close to having an A rating and because i "crashed" im now halfway between c and b.

[@dmitrievkirill]

you're lucky. My VIP missions crash to the desktop without any errors, when the plane reaches the flight level and the option to skip the flight should appear in the right menu. It also crashes in commercial flight mode on a 737. The game does not crash in other missions. But I have to farm cargo flights on a Cessna 172 for a long time to get money for a Cessna 208. A small lifehack if you only use polar regions, where long-distance flights, bad weather and money are given normally.

[@alexanderveit7370]

Very useful, many thanks. I knew some of it and learnt lots of new things to try out!

[@andrewdstokes]

Question for you - how do you get proficient on new planes in career mode? Do you just do a bunch of free flight and watch YT videos? Feels to me that there should be a type rating system (optional or mandatory) for you to go up for a check flight with a CFI to go over everything on the new type

[@wormfood83]

Yeah, this gets me. Everytime I take a mission in a new aircraft I gotta figure it out. What's the take off/landing speeds, what speeds can I deploy the flaps at, how does it handle? Sometimes some of the information is in a panel inside the cockpit. Some of it is in the manual for the aircraft in the game files. Sometimes it's missing entirely. If's it's a little prop plane I just fly and usually land well enough. If it's anything else, I take it up in free fly first and try to figure some of it out.

[@krystiandworak2569]

I've made a stupid mistake of selling my first aircraft because I've noticed I could sell it for a lot more money than I bought it for. Thinking it was some sort of a bug. Here I am suffering on employee missions trying to save up for a cessna... I hate myself

[@PebbleTrader]

LOL, I did the same thing! Once you get that first plane, don't sell it! It's not a bug. The plane prices go way up to 250,000

[@embers5858]

@@krystiandworak2569 the pain was real once you get cargo though life is so much easier

[@Floo2o24]

same, this should become a meme

[@MrVilla2000]

Great Video! Lot of good pointers and I am looking forward to entering the carreer mode myself. For the moement I have put it on hold due to work and a lot of trawelling + I would like it to be a bit more polished before I start. After New year I will defently be on it!!

[@billbaggins1688]

I think the best advice for VR flyers is to wait until they fix the menus and messages. Otherwise this career mode and the certification flights are just an un-enjoyable mess, designed to make your head ache. EDIT: So went back into career mode, and now high winds are destroying me constantly. And they give you ZERO information about the wind conditions until you are basically on the runway. Great tip about changing the entry procedure. I mean this teardrop option is default everywhere I have been. I have been ignoring it. I wonder when career mode will be ready to have fun in?

[@releez.social-media-marketing]

i also struggled with cross winds a lot. my tip is to change assist settings to all, then the auto rudder and other assist features make landing a looooot easier.

[@RSProduxx]

kinda related to 22:00 + VIP missions in Germany 95% going to the south, there´s barely anything going up north which is strange and most of all pretty sad :P

[@DEANOx83]

@RSProduxx I'm sick of the Alps. Every flight in Europe (not uk) flies to the Alps. I've moved to the U.S with a new plane now

[@someguy5035]

@@DEANOx83 Exactly what I did. Got tired of crazy approaches, tiny runways, and hurricane force winds.

[@KrispyNuggetBoutique]

LIFR = Low Instrument Flight Rules, essentially means less than 1 mile visibility or very low ceilings. (

[@psour33]

And most of the time, ATC deny you the approach and landing because of LIFR conditions.

[@fredimachadonet]

Awesome content mate! I made the terrible mistake of delivering my Cirrus Jet to the other side of the planet where VIP missions are. 😂😂 Moving the plane will cost almost 200k Cr. 🙈 I think I'll probably leave it there for now and save up for another Jet and deliver it to the correct place.

[@deoczidGONI]

Most important is, is this still applicable or has some of it been fixed?

[@Pete-Rocks]

I have had a freaking nightmare! After a long grind I started a freight company with a Cessna 172, I then took on a job that was 230 kilometers away, the journey was with stormy conditions and I had autopilot on. As I approached the last 5 kilometers I turned off autopilot and dialed down the sim rate, big mistake. I accidently incresad it, the plane then suddlendly stalled and spiralled out of control into a crash, I pressed control alt delete and even though I had max insurance it still cost me nearly 100k to fix.

[@BipolarBLKSheep]

I wish Asobo would drop patches/updates more frequently than they do! Its like once a month, if we are lucky... I hate that this mode is so buggy and unpolished along with the OBVIOUS places where they cut corners. The career mode is so fun but its almost like the game is trying everything it can to keep you from having fun with all the bugs. I spend more time navigating bugs than navigating my plane...

[@sniperwolfpk5]

What a great tips. I wish I had seen this video earlier. Thank you very much for such a great video

[@EMCproductions51]

Fuel was the worst for me. I kept getting missions into a headwind, with cargo starting at like 40% fuel. I tried changing fuel load on the tablet, which didn't work, or requesting fuel from ground services when it was available. Mapping Refit and Refuel was a life-saver. The deeper you get in the career, the more it is broken though. ATC will scream at you for not maintaining flight level when you're 2 ft below the flight level, AP won't follow the flight plan, mission director just forgets where you are in the mission etc... Also, it's very annoying that you still really only get offered the basic level jobs, even though you're certified all the way through the tree.

[@bshaut]

Doing the Cessna Skyhawk grind right now….. fun fun

[@1littlelee]

about the fuel, it tells you how much is needed, 1302lbs its there on the screen in fact its on 2 screens!, clicking on manage aircraft you can add fuel there, now adding the fuel in game will come up with a "unexpected error"

[@RafaelBattencourt]

How do you get medium cargo missions? I have the plane, but I don't see any medium cargo missions for freelancer

[@mrghostpers0n]

Opinion on the first advice, i disagree on letting us draw an area to unlock.. but give us free flight in career, and have the area you fly over unlocked.. so it's still manual.. and why shouldn't i be able to fly a plane i just bought. i know there is free flight in the main menu, but in career it could also have a purpose. edit. about the sim rate, if you decrease it all the was and go 4 ticks increase, you are back on normal speed

[@johanvirebrand7196]

Really good tips and video! Very much thanks!

[@findyourblisstoo]

Insurance glitch that cost you all that money was patched and isn’t an issue any more. That said, the video was very helpful. Seeing how much the VIP and medium cargo missions pay gave me an idea which direction to go with my career.

[@kutyafal]

@Squirrel In case you didn't know you can map a button to "Toggle Thrust Reverse" to enable beta on the Caravan. Once toggled pushing the throttle forward will smoothly move the in-game throttle backwards into the beta range allowing you to do precise taxi speeds. I wish the same thing was available and working on the PC-12... :(

[@kutyafal]

Oh, and speaking of the PC-12 in medium cargo missions. If you fly at the requested FL300 or similar the plane will crash or you die at that altitude and the mission will fail. It is because there is no oxygen on the plane (gauge is zero) and the pressurization is not working. The trick I found so far is to fly at FL180 or below and that let's you finish the flight. I guess with the "add fuel" trick it can work on longer routes.

[@ArcanePath360]

Thanks for the advice. Not tried this mode yet. Still just playing around before the next patch and my internet gets upgraded.

[@GatisKaulinsh]

LOL. Jensen! I was saying same thing before even you mentioned! Haaah thats dope! :D

[@yomammy13]

I started my career over because I forgot to watch all your tutorials on flying and especially landing. Now I'm almost back to where I was in only 7 hours of gameplay. Skipped the tail hook and going with the cargo all the way.

[@opietaylor2843]

Great video! Can confirm alt+f4 does work if you crash. I tail struck my vision jet and hit it within a couple seconds. Booted back up and just lost the mission.

[@tylerbryant6652]

@@opietaylor2843 bruh crashed a vision jet lol, I’m dead, so would you if you were a pilot irl.. haha you can’t even buy it anymore guess they thought it was to much of a steal at 700k. Don’t know why I don’t see it..

[@FlightSimRookie]

Glad I watched this! I've been reading that the 208 is the way to go to make money, so planned on buying that as my first plane however I now see that cost wise it's out of reach and it's best to do the 172 cargo approach at first. Thanks!

[@sascenturion]

Excellent breakdown/ review / advices in regards career mode ! ...thanks

[@TurboArmageddon]

I've already restarted my career mode because I bought flightseeing and learned it wasn't the go. This video will help me even more, thank you 😁

[@Dstoro13]

21:34 don't miss this part guys it will help you out and this one too 27:54 these are things I wish I knew day one!

[@shul5684]

Crashed the caravan while I was AFK due to the bug of the AP where the plane just banks to the side for no reason(happens mainly when I turn on nav mode on and when I accelerate sim). Now I have to come up with 4 mil to fix everything in it. Didn’t even do one mission. Also the Vr in the caravan is bugged too. Images of the mouse cursor in my eyes are not synced right. The right eye is off by a bit. I have to rely on my left eye to place the cursor in the spot to tweak things. I hope this gets fixed in the patches a couple of days from now.

[@Privateuser27]

I wish I saw this before starting career. Funny enough the most I get for flightseeing is like 20k. This game really wants me to grind. If I hear the AI say one more time don’t grab the seat so hard your gonna break It, I’m gonna lose it!!

[@blake18998]

@@Privateuser27 u might be doing first flights I did tho for ages thinking I was sight seeing

[@Privateuser27]

@@blake18998your right, someone helped me in one of the streams I had to do the gold camera mission or something for it to unlock the other stuff, fml. I did get my Vision Jet at least. Only problem is the first mission I do is to land somewhere in Switzerland but I can’t find the runway. So I had to alt + F4 put of that.

[@wolfecanada6726]

I have had the game since preorder, I'm waiting until the patch next week to really start things off.

[@bshaut]

Good idea I just bought in on the 8th for this latest patch. Not totally polished yet, but it is pretty dam good and visually stunning.

[@vvvstuvvv]

22:00 this is amazing

[@ramblinrogers]

Thank you for a great guide. I have probably done every mistake in the book in career mode so far, AND I'm primarily focusing on helicopters. So there has been a lot of heartbreak!

[@swoop1352]

Can someone answer a specific question for me about failures? I really enjoy dealing with emergencies. FSpassengers on FSX, with a random failure rate set to follow the state of the aircraft, skip services and things start to fall off. My absolute favourite flight sim experience ever was forgetting I had FSpassengers running, coming into Heathrow on VATSIM and only getting 2 green lights on gear extension in a King Air. It turned out to be that tower controller's first ever solo shift and he did very well dealing with me. I see from videos that MSFS24 has all kinds of systems with specific condition %s, but what effect does all this have on the in flight experience? Is it possible to get, say, an avionics short mid flight? Or a bird strike on take off? Or a tyre that bursts on landing? Or literally any of the exciting events that could happen in FSpassengers in FSX?

[@Teddy_Bear312]

I did a freelance cargo mission in my skyhawk 172, landed a bit too hard and my landing gear broke. Tire failed and my plane tipped over resulting in a crash. Luckily i had enough funds to repair the plane, and the landing gear already had a notice on it that it needed to be repaired before the flight. So it seems that failures have a impact for real. Seeing as there is also a flight system and engine maintanance, i'd expect these can also fail during flights. I don't think bird strikes are a thing tho

[@ethandoesguitar1019]

amazing man, absolute god. had such an issue with the game giving me 40% fuel in a cessna 192 for a 250nm flight, didnt realise i could change it! same for cruise altitude. and that 710k cirron is amazing bro thank you

[@sebastianthehotsaucedude5473]

Go to shortcuts in the controls menu and bind add fuel. It will fill up like 35% of fuel per button press. You're welcome. And yes. You can do it in game.

[@ethandoesguitar1019]

@sebastianthehotsaucedude5473 thanks man!

[@sebastianthehotsaucedude5473]

@@ethandoesguitar1019 yw

[@michaeldwyer3466]

Thanks, good to know what I need to do next. Too bad MS didn't bother to explain any of this.

[@notgonsay7560]

Some great tips in there, as am just getting started in Career Mode. Thanks!

[@QuiGon00]

small tip for sim rate that works for me, if you pressed four times speed increase, or 3 times, You dont remember, than clicking twice the decrease sim rate speed button (like mouse double click) returns it to 1x sim rate. I didn't set this anywhere, it is just how it works for me. You also need remember about ATC in increased time speed, you'll got penalty if You don't catch up with ATC. Again what is work for me in that case, if i see ATC talking to me than i pressing decrease sim rate button not twice wich slows me to 1x speed but 3 or 4 times, that actually slows the time speed below 1x but then i have time to answer ATC and not get penalty for missed ATC command. After ATC i'm speeding up again ;)

[@b34k97]

I think the issue with the sim rate and turbulence has to do with the autopilot not reacting at the increased rate. Seems like at the slightest bit of turbulence, it's late to react, but then continues to over-correct producing autopilot induced oscillations. I notice the same issue when I reach a steer-point of more than a few degrees, so I drop back down to 1x for all of these.

[@MGEnforcer]

I don't know if you can go straight into the cargo company. After watching this video, I did a bunch of employee flights to get up to around 30K. The Flight Seeing company was available for purchase but, the cargo was not with the message of "No available aircraft." So, it may have to start with the flight seeing, until you get the required 220K for starting the cargo company. May just be in particular situation but, I met all the other criteria.

[@kitfitforpurpose470]

To get a cargo company you need to cover the cost of the company and the plane.

[@chrischadwick]

Thanks very much for this Squirrel. Great video, well explained and taught me a few things. So much just isn’t explained in the sim. I spend as much time on the forums/You Tube as I do flying! 😂. Oh and thanks for the sim rate tip. I was manually calculating how far I’d travelled in a given time to work out if I was at 1x or not. 👍🏻

[@jaypeal7260]

Thank you for the helpful tipps and tricks!

[@huistv2005]

I flew my brand new Caravan on its second flight in the highest sim rate. Small turn ok although unstable, but on this 45 degree turn the mission ended. ‘You crashed your plane’ I don’t know what it was, high g loads or something like that, but I now have to save up 2.5 million credits to fix it. 😢 But I still love the career mode. Maybe a bit too addictive.

[@ncvwrx2759]

@5:10 I hear your advice on waiting to create a cargo company-- but I noticed that once i got cleared to do ferry missions all over the place, the amounts for flightseeing missions decreased significantly. Do you have any idea if waiting to start a cargo company (instead of starting a flightseeing/skydiving company) , are mission payments for cargo company now somehow lower, considering that you paid so little for your first plane??

[@cyberangel82]

Thank you for these tips. It reminds me a lot of the Elite Dangerous grind.

[@TENGILL]

I learned a lot from this video, thank you!

[@MaikKellerhals]

Thank you. I enjoy careeer mode a lot. Some of your tips i figured out by myself, others, you are perfect advice. Maybe you should mention that the insurance system doesn't work AT ALL In a way since this is so VERY buggy and flawed, I still enjoy the HECK out of career mode. Tells me, that this is going to be great at some point.

[@andrewhickinbottom1051]

Thanks for the advice! I wished i saw this yesterday haha - i made the 25k to start my own company and i went straight into flightseeing with the discount cessna. Guess i'll be grinding for a good while with the robot customers telling me everything is amazing in a flat toned voice 😅 I'm enjoying the career mode though! Its nice to have a good reason to fly places and have things to work towards. I'm finding the penalties to rep and cash a bit brutal though - especially if the crash or fine is the game's fault rather than your own.

[@MuziFN]

My 1st Day Was Horror I Decided To Learn The A330 Which I Totally Shouldnt Have, I was having a Mental Breakdown But I Pulled Through, Here's How I Mastered The A330 In 10 Days Day 1: Starting On Runway Learning The Basic Controls Like Direct F-PLN And Learning The Controls Of EveryThing Day:2 Enhancing Those Skills And Attempting Landings Day 3: Learn How To StartUp The A330 Cold And Dark Day:4: Learning What Some ATC Words Mean And Using The ATC Day:5 : Enhaincing Everything I Learnt. Day:6 : Learning When To Descend And What Those ICONS On MCU Mean Day:7: First Succesful Startup-Shutoff Flight (OMDB-OTHH) Day:8 :How Taxi Without Ribbons Day:9: How To Use Simbreif F-PLN And Ez Connection Day:10: Do A Full Flight With Everything I Know(it Worked) Future: Learn And Gain Confidence To Use(VATSIM) I Had Tons Of Bugs To The Point It Took Me 2 HRS To Load 1 Flight. Bcuz I USE A (1650) And I7).16 GB RAM

[@TheBB88]

thanks for the tip about teleporting to unlock parts of the world map!

[@brandonthomas1887]

Nice to hear everyones having the same issues as me

[@limitbassfishing2733]

I love career mode. I don't bother with the default ATC. I use Beyond ATC. Accept my mission, file/adjust the flight plan in simbrief and then upload it to the EFB. I then load up beyond ATC and fly my mission. Much more realistic.

[@underleft]

Career is completely broken. It's unacceptable that it released in this state. Not just the bugs, but the design.

[@etherialord]

Does your start at ALL? There is absolutely nothing I can find that says how this is triggered in the app. I picked my starting location of KSLE and NOTHING else is presented. No where to click, no information. No cut scene, no anything. It just sits there with KSLE as my starting location. Did I really miss something simple here or is it just not working in my installation.

[@WhatsWrong221]

@@etherialord Try re installing the game?

[@etherialord]

@ okay, is there a chance you can’t fly out of every airport because I noticed some statement said there was a flying club that had to be at the airport?

[@etherialord]

I do know that you can’t fly out of international airports. I didn’t think that KSLE qualified as international

[@erikandreasfonahn5899]

Thank you! This is going to save me a lot of time and frustration!

[@JTCulverhouse]

Thanks - some great tips. I really hope they patch the career mode with the crew / insurance / repairs etc.

[@yomammy13]

The vip unlock mission has that problem with decent in ifr as well.

[@Jet-Pack]

32:32 I'm pretty sure that is just a bad implementation of LNAV on the autopilot, not turbulence.

[@Floo2o24]

it’s wobbling the whole leg so yeah not just turb

[@SimWithDon]

Very informative video! Thanks, Squirrel! 👍

[@gsxr1000jt]

Sadly the add fuel bind now causing game error and crashes either right after hitting button or shortly in flight.

[@PebbleTrader]

Whoa that fast travel tip is nice!

[@trent_dyrsmid]

The patch killed the cheap relocation hack you showed. When I tried to zoom into an airport and relocated to it, I was looking at a bill of about $30K. Sadly, I have ZERO missions available for my VIP company. Any idea why?

[@shouryashrivastava3948]

i am at level 80 i have all 13 certifications done on the airplane side inside create company i only see flight seeing as eligible and owned as i have one company running but all other options are showing as pending and i have completed their respected specialisation done and it shows 1/1 specialisation unlocked or 2/2 specialisation unlocked for charter service but shows aircraft available for purchase as red on all.

[@JohnVanderbeck]

Some things to consider/my thoughts: 1. The costs/state of used aircraft are randomized to some extent, so 1.2m for a c208 isn't a guarantee. In fact in my career the cheapest used c208 I've seen is 2.3m 2. Payout on missions is based on time. You look to be doing around 4 hour missions? 3. Even with IFR most missions won't be live weather, especially if the time is local night but you don't have night currency. Even then I've found most missions at least for me are not live, even when the slider is set to live :( 4. On the screen where you are in your hangar, at the top right you can Manage your aircraft. If you go in there you can manage w&b and fuel. I agree the EFB is bonkers. One big thing I want to say though is, I really think people have the wrong frame of mode for Career mode. It is clearly designed to be a long term experience.

[@midacondrea]

34:30 Nice Landing 😆 Exelent saves

[@a47mlb]

How do you get the EFB mounted to the left side of the cockpit? All mine are mounted on the right side.

[@unclealig]

Hi. Just started with the career mode. I have now ppl, cpl, and high endorsement aicrafts and level7. For the next certificate like MEP, Turboprops or IFR I need a bunch of money. But within my missions I only have boring "first flight" missions, altough I already have the skydiving and ferry flight specialization. But none of these additional specializations are displayed in the missions, exept the "first flight"...how to enable that. With just doing first flight mission which earns you about 900Cr., it will take ages to get the money fit the next certifications, and it will also get boring.

[@MarcL1313]

Don't rely on the default IFR cruising altitudes given by ATC. In the mountains you will surely be told to fly straight into one. You would think they could at least know the highest obstruction height between your departure airport and destination, but they don't. Always add several thousand more feet as a safety margin.

[@chrischadwick]

I can vouch for that one!

[@yomammy13]

I use a gamepad and velocity stick and can't get landing gear to retract to landing mode. Plus certain planes the buttons don't do what they are mapped to. Sometimes they work, and sometimes they dont

[@yomammy13]

Yeah same problem. I started my career over and I'm going to experiment with the planes that have landing gear. Have the gear up mapped to one of the stick buttons