Recently upgraded to 2024 from 2020 with the help of the community here; had some experiences on the weekend I wanted to share, get some feedback. Enjoying the upgrade so far, a mix of free flights and up to level 16 in career mode, there's certainly more to do without jumping right to 3rd party mods and add-ons. 

Quirks - I did encounter the ATC Taxi bug on the PPL mission, so that was a fun wasted hour of trying things before googling the issue and learning that this has been like that since the start. Pretty crazy that so many people have a bug on the very first mission (I guess second technically) and remains unresolved years later. No wonder the career mode gets a lot of hate - As per others with the bug, I just restarted and did it all over again, this time it worked. That was the only ATC/Quick Reply bug I have encountered so far. Also noticed that the "Fly Pattern Approach" before landing never actually matters even if the mission objectives tell you to, but you CANNOT reassign runways for career missions either. The ATC for Missions is certainly lacking - just press a button for canned dialog. Maybe it gets more varied when you have the instrument rating and are doing IFR routes. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like BATC/SI/P2ATC are useful for Career mode ATC handling, just for Free Flights. I'd love to be wrong about that though.

Qualms - Controller mapping was interesting. Multiple assignments sometimes conflicted, and sometimes did not, when 2020 they worked fine. For some reason, my game will randomly unbind A1 on the yoke. As in the input stops working mid flight, and if I open up the options menu and just hit save and exit, it remembers the bind and works again without having to make any changes. That one is very frustrating as I'm using A1 to cycle Next Instrument view, and having it randomly unbind in the middle of flight is not great. When I switched from the Xbox Game Pass to the Steam Version, the game remembered by career progress and avatar settings, but not my logbook or controller mapping, quite randomly. Also, when did it become a requirement for all pilots to be clean shaven? No beard options in the Character Creator is just unacceptable LMAO

Questions - Career Mode - I've been doing the full flights, but I've seen posts suggesting that you can increase the Sim Rate without losing points/$$ whereas the Skip To option will dock you points (and sometimes bug out causing you to crash). Is this using the Sim Rate Mod or the default Sim Rate in the game?

Also in Career Mode - Companies is locked out, I assume until a higher level or rep is reached? There doesn't seem to be an unlock condition listed in game for that, unlike the specializations. Levelling up from C to B rep unlocks "Special Missions" which are supposed to be gold/yellow but I haven't seen any appear yet. These are not the same as the missions to unlock specializations, correct? I can see all of those are greyed out until I meet the requirements. Clearly should have gotten the Instrument Rating ASAP, instead of the high-performance rating and night ratings as I haven't seen a single night mission yet. It seems odd that you wouldn't need your instrument rating before the night rating anyway. Still trying to figure out what determines mission generation.

Lastly, most of the technical/performance set up issues I got resolved from other threads and the game is running well; however, during the walkaround and sometimes in 3rd person view, I get the annoying "YOU DONT HAVE ENOUGH VRAM, LOWER YOUR GRAPHICS" message that I'd love to disable. I'm aware of the VRAM problem (and even with the message spamming me, its only noticeable when quickly moving the camera around in 3rd person) and I can and will be keeping the settings where they are, so if anyone knows how to turn that pop-up message off, please share!

12 minutes ago, Kristofski said:

Lastly, most of the technical/performance set up issues I got resolved from other threads and the game is running well; however, during the walkaround and sometimes in 3rd person view, I get the annoying "YOU DONT HAVE ENOUGH VRAM, LOWER YOUR GRAPHICS" message that I'd love to disable. I'm aware of the VRAM problem (and even with the message spamming me, its only noticeable when quickly moving the camera around in 3rd person) and I can and will be keeping the settings where they are, so if anyone knows how to turn that pop-up message off, please share!

There is nowhere to turn this off annoyingly.

12 minutes ago, Kristofski said:

Lastly, most of the technical/performance set up issues I got resolved from other threads and the game is running well; however, during the walkaround and sometimes in 3rd person view, I get the annoying "YOU DONT HAVE ENOUGH VRAM, LOWER YOUR GRAPHICS" message that I'd love to disable. I'm aware of the VRAM problem (and even with the message spamming me, its only noticeable when quickly moving the camera around in 3rd person) and I can and will be keeping the settings where they are, so if anyone knows how to turn that pop-up message off, please share!

There is nowhere to turn this off annoyingly.

51 minutes ago, MarcG said:

There is nowhere to turn this off annoyingly.

...but you can hide it: https://flightsim.to/addon/100169/hide-this-message

15 minutes ago, Torsen said:

...but you can hide it: https://flightsim.to/addon/100169/hide-this-message

Oh yes thank you I forgot about that 🙂

3 hours ago, MarcG said:

There is nowhere to turn this off annoyingly.

There is. Getting a GPU with more VRAM than the 4060 he has. I should know I am in the same boat and keep on eying the 5060 because it has twice as much VRAM. 😉