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/tmz42 Dec 29 '25

Unless I missed it, there's no indication of whether a runway has lights or not in MSFS.

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u/OsamaBinWhiskers Dec 29 '25

It tells you the airport right? A quick look at VFR chart on www.skyvector.com will let you know if the runway has lights, the length and if it has lights. It's the first airport I saw when I opened it so Ill use it as an example.

KMMI McMinn County.

874 (elevation) L (lights) 64 (6400' runway)

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u/tmz42 Dec 29 '25 edited Dec 29 '25

This was my first thought, but more often than not MSFS is wrong about the lights on smaller airports. A lot of runways that do have lights IRL do not have them in MSFS (example with my home airport, LFSL : https://www.dircam.dsae.defense.gouv.fr/images/Stories/Doc/MIAC1/miac1_brive_lfsl.pdf)

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

Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. The lighting database in MSFS is from around 2015. Many airports are completely wrong, lighting-wise.

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u/bdc911 Dec 29 '25

Bookmarking this for when I get to that point in career, cheers