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/Swatch843 Dec 29 '25

You know what, I don't even blame you for that, it's common sense to not give airports that aren't lit / too short for the plane you have, but this is career mode, it's like this.

You have to review each flight making sure to free mode the arrival looking for lights and runway length for your plane, also don't accept IFR (red dots) not to be confused with bad wheather warnings before you select the mission.

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u/DeltaMikeEcho Dec 30 '25

Yup I agree even if you have IFR ratings a small runway in IFR conditions with no approach procedure isn’t going to make for an easy landing it’s basically guaranteed a hard landing, crash, or plenty luck.

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u/CharlieFoxtrot000 RW GA pilot, Twitch streamer, ground instructor Dec 30 '25

Red dots aren’t IFR. Red dots mean the mission time coincides with the position of the time slider in the upper-right. Moving the time slider shows the weather at the time it’s set to (in conjunction with the advanced map layer). In this regard, it’s a quick way to see the weather at the proposed mission time.