Career mode - "Finish Mission" in Air

[JSlade0]

I completed my first mission, then flew backover home. I didn't want to land. So I hit ESC, and clicked the big green button that says "finish mission". Then, come to find out, i lost my aircraft?

Do you have to land to prevent this? Thank you.

[peepeepoopoo man]

I think if you start the mission in the air it gives you an option to finish it the air not sure tho, if that doesn't work try letting the computer fly your plane it should land it by itself.

[gspectre]

What do you mean you "lost" the Aircraft? Did you misplace it and forgot where or did the mission end with no credit or did it report that your aircraft crashed?

I've ended missions with that option before. I don't think it gives you full credit but the mission ended successfully. I prefer to land the Aircraft now.

Was your Aircraft damaged when you ended the mission? If it was, it probably calculated the odds and decided the plane would not have made it.

[JSlade0]

So... tried it again. Same result.
At the end of the mission, the results shows that my aircraft was destroyed.

Tried letting autopilot land.. on x8 speed, watching the plane go around in circles for 10 min was... not my picture of fun.

I started the mission in the air, and when the objectives are complete, it says, "mission accomplished" or whatever. In big gold letters. Then finish mission. wrecked.

[gspectre]

Why would you try to use Autopilot to land while in accelerated time, other than to see what weird glitch might happen?

Did you happen to ask or get permission to land?

Also, you still never seem to mention the condition of the Aircraft when you end the mission.

[kalnaren]

Originally posted by JSlade0:

I completed my first mission, then flew backover home. I didn't want to land. So I hit ESC, and clicked the big green button that says "finish mission". Then, come to find out, i lost my aircraft?

Do you have to land to prevent this? Thank you.

This is a know bug.

Unless you land the aircraft at the airfield, the mission will end with the plane "crashed". It isn't just career mode, it does it in Pat Wilson's campaign gen as well.

The only way around it is to actually go and land the plane :/

[cleopa9]

I started a post on this a month ago, and I also reported this on the official forum. It is a known bug, effectively. Difficult to say if it will be fixed with the imminent release of BOBP. As kalanaren mentioned, you have to land your plane at some base, otherwise it will be lost. It is a bug that has been present since the most recent update.

[martin77]

should be fixed now

[AstroCat]

Yeah this is fixed.

[kalnaren]

Still not really fixed. It comes back as "Flight Cancelled" and records the plane as 'downed'. :/

[Ham]

same with PWCG so instead i try to land on my own it count as good even when your squadron not there since the autopilot wait to land till all your alive wingmen landed

[Hellfire47]

For a long time I used autopilot to land at normal time and I said the heck with this it is boring so I tried many times to land myself but I crashed. It took alot of practice to master landing, and I did! That is all I do now, much more fun. Good challenge for anyone. Also, it is a good practice to wait your landing turn in formation. If there is someone ahead of your plane trying to land.

[kalnaren]

I can land. It just annoys me that the missions take so bloody long doing nothing. If I wanted to fly a simulator where I spent the majority of time cruising around I'd go play P3D or something.

It's not a dealbreaker for me or anything, but it does mean I can only get one or two missions into a play session and that's it.