'Fly to Cayo Perico' Velum bug

[Huncho]

We're almost April, the heist has been out since December. How hard can it be to fix?
I'm fed up of flying all the way south from Paleto or Grapeseed just for the objective to bug out & disappear.

[in]

Host theists from invite only. If you ever went to public during that gaming session, fully rr game and go directly to story mode then invite only and host there. When approaching checkpoint, try manually lowering landing gear before it triggers.

[Doc Holiday]

This can happen even in invite only though. Maybe less frequent, but it happened with me.

The landing gear advice was good, I will try it.

Another thing I avoid doing now is open the phone while I'm flying.

[Huncho]

I've done the intel mission in Public, Invite-Only, even Closed Friends Session - it happens in all of them.

Same thing with the landing gear. I gave that a shot after reading up about it being a potential fix, only for it to work once but then bug out on the following attempt.

Other things I've tried with no success:

• Letting go of the Velum controls & gliding into the yellow objective circle
  
• Flying into the objective upside down
  
• Flying into the objective while in the cinematic flying camera
  
• Avoid opening my phone while in the Velum
  
• Avoid changing the radio station in the Velum

[EARADIQl]

You both did not directly respond to In's advice of starting your game session from invite only, I think that's the most important part. So if at any point during your session you've been in a public lobby (or any other lobby for that matter, like a contact mission or race) before starting the heist in invite only, fully reboot the game, just switching to invite only is not enough to be safe. Load to story mode first, then directly to invite only.

Another question, where do you spawn in your session? In one of my first runs when the heist released I spawned in the Kosatka and couldn't access the heist board at all. So perhaps it's safer not to use it as a spawnpoint either.

This bug never happened to me, and if any of these steps I take are different than what you did perhaps it's an idea to try it like this (this has been my exact routine from the beginning):

When I want to run this heist (I only play it solo) I boot the game directly into story mode and go to invite only from there. I spawn at the Casino Penthouse (any other spawnpoint than the Kosatka should do), walk out of the front entrance and call for the Sparrow. When flying over Vespucci Beach I call for the Kosatka to make sure it will spawn at that location. I go in, set up the heist and intel mission, and fly out with the Sparrow again. Instead of fast-traveling to the Velum's position, I fly there. Takes some extra time, but since Vespucci Beach is the best location to do preps, I just leave it there for when I return to LS. When approaching the smugglers I shoot a missile at the pair that stand away from the plane and car. Often the one next to the plane is dumb enough to go to the car for cover, I lock into him and wait for it. If he doesn't I blow up the one by the car and snipe the one by the plane instead after landing my Sparrow a safe distance away. I know the Velum can take a missile but I don't damage it. After killing them I fly away with the Velum, retract the landing gear and switch to a radiostation. As soon as I pass any mountains I fly straight towards and into the marker to the island at a moderate height (about as high as the top of electricity pylons/masts).

So, perhaps a few things to take into consideration worth a try:
- Start your game session directly into story mode and go straight into an invite only session from there to start the heist and intel setup
- Don't spawn in your Kosatka
- Don't fast-travel to the Velum's location but fly there
- Don't damage the Velum
- Fly straight towards the marker for Cayo Perico, at a moderate height

[Huncho]

in's advice isn't anything new. I've always started my game in Story Mode and then switched to whichever online mode I feel like playing in, 99% of the time it's Invite Only since I'm not big on Public lobbies.

I load up at my CEO building (Maze Bank Tower) so when I leave and call in my Kosatka, it usually spawns off the coast of Vespucci Beach. The only thing I do differently from EARADIQI during intel is fast travel to the Velum since I can't be bothered to fly all the way North just to fly back the way I came in a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ plane.

[∆̷2̷∂̷∑̷R̷∞̷֎∦]

I encountered less bugs doing the prep missions alone, if your in a prep mission and get a game invite do not accept it, for the reason it can make more bugs occur.