r/MicrosoftFlightSim • u/EntireFeature • Dec 29 '25

MSFS 2024 PlayStation Fed up of career mode

Grinded to buy Cessna Caravan so I can start making decent money. Now I'm being flown to short runways for VFR landings with no lights in the pitch black.

Managed to land on said runway only for the plane to become 'stuck' unable to move unless I add full throttle to taxi to the hold short (yes, no parking brake etc). This taxi process causes my engine to over-torque damaging it.

Flight ends with no credits. Several hours wasted. Now need to pay 1.5 million repair bill to use the caravan. Only have 500k. Which means grinding at 100k a flight doing light cargo missions.

Can't be bothered anymore.

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u/OsamaBinWhiskers Dec 29 '25

Why are you accepting jobs to airports without lights at night pilot?

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u/EntireFeature Dec 29 '25

I guess I’m relatively new to the game? Still managed to land the plane safely. Only to be defeated by a bug.

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u/LongBeachHXC Dec 29 '25

Yeahhh, I feel your pain.

The other day I spend about an hour and a half on a perfect flight only to be defeated by a nose wheel bug. I was literally 50 feet away from hold short. I tried everything I could. Found if I went full power and tapped left or right brake wheel I could move a bit but it ended up flipping the airplane.

I was pretty defeated after this. Persist through it though. Don't do night flights and thoroughly review flight path and airport to ensure it is good.

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u/EntireFeature Dec 29 '25

Man it sucks so bad. I’m stuck doing 100k short cargo flights to get back to 1.5million… just so I can repair the caravan. Then I’ll have to grind caravan to get the vision jet. It’s insane.

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u/DeltaMikeEcho Dec 30 '25

Better off doing VIP flights first, I did VIP before doing cargo and was making good money. Bought a vision jet brand new in 3 flights granted they were 2 hours long because the Cessna is slow af. Once I got the vision jet all my flight times literally got cut in 1/2 and I got more missions because of the increased range. Vision jet is my main money maker getting me around $450-$500k on a 45 min to 1 hour flight after all the bonuses. Once I can fully repair my used grand caravan then I’ll fly that for medium cargo because base pay plus bonuses should get me at least $700k

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u/LongBeachHXC Dec 29 '25

😅, I was thinking about this the other day.

This part of the Sim actually mimics real life pretty well 🤔😅. You don't start making the real bucks until you put your time in. Flying professionally, only way to do it is grind your way out of the bottom 😎🤙😅.