Microsoft Flight Simulator
43 Achievements
1,000
1000+h
PC
Xbox Series
Greased
Complete every Landing Challenge.
30
0.35%
How to unlock the Greased achievement in Microsoft Flight Simulator - Definitive Guide
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(IT APPEARS THAT A GLITCH OCCURS AND SOMETIMES CHALLENGES DON'T COUNT, USE YOUR ACHIEVEMENT TRACKER AND MAKE SURE IT GOES UP AFTER EACH CHALLENGE)
Landing challenges are located under 'ACTIVITIES' on the welcome screen. There are a total of 24 challenges, 8 famous, 8 epic, and 8 strong wind. There are more flight challenges available if you download the 'World Updates', I'm unsure if you download these that you will have to complete the 'new' challenges also for the achievement, so I advise you to complete the challenges before downloading any of them. Let me know if you did download them and didn't have to complete them in the comments, I'll list out the base game challenges, as the game doesn't tell you.
It doesn't matter what you score on them, you just have to complete them. I advise you to complete flight training before doing anything in the game, it will make your life much easier. (I completed all the challenges with just the flight training, so I highly recommend it before even reading this guide.)
I'm not the best pilot and almost all these challenges only took me a few tries, with all of them only taking a few hours. Some tips I can give you is look at the 'flight plan' that shows up while loading, it shows you the speeds that you should be at and where the landing strip is, as you don't get a mini map in flight, sometimes it's better to scope out where the strip is and then just restart, that way you have a better way of planning out your landing.
Before landing you want to line your plane up as best as possible with the strip, using 'LT' and 'RT', and keep lowing yourself as low as possible, while lowing your power with 'B' and using the up and down arrows on the 'D-Pad' to adjust your flaps, these will slow you down. When coming into land you want to keep lowing your power by pressing 'B', I turn mine all the way down when I'm a few hundred feet away. Once off, I switch to holding 'X' and keeping my plane steady, don't use 'LT/RT' when about to land, as you have no speed and will crash. Let your plane gently go down by itself, once touched down, press left on your 'D-Pad', while still holding 'X', to turn on your parking brake, it's essential on the challenges with small strips.
If my text tips didn't help you, I'll link this video that gives some great tips on landing. Only thing I would change is the view, press the 'VIEW' button on your controller to change to the 3rd person view, unless you feel confident to land the plane from the inside, I honestly don't know why your reading this guide if you can.
All credit goes to "Squirrel" on YouTube. He also has some other tip videos that have helped me a lot through the game. Leave a comment if you have any other tips that have helped you.
Landing challenges are located under 'ACTIVITIES' on the welcome screen. There are a total of 24 challenges, 8 famous, 8 epic, and 8 strong wind. There are more flight challenges available if you download the 'World Updates', I'm unsure if you download these that you will have to complete the 'new' challenges also for the achievement, so I advise you to complete the challenges before downloading any of them. Let me know if you did download them and didn't have to complete them in the comments, I'll list out the base game challenges, as the game doesn't tell you.
It doesn't matter what you score on them, you just have to complete them. I advise you to complete flight training before doing anything in the game, it will make your life much easier. (I completed all the challenges with just the flight training, so I highly recommend it before even reading this guide.)
I'm not the best pilot and almost all these challenges only took me a few tries, with all of them only taking a few hours. Some tips I can give you is look at the 'flight plan' that shows up while loading, it shows you the speeds that you should be at and where the landing strip is, as you don't get a mini map in flight, sometimes it's better to scope out where the strip is and then just restart, that way you have a better way of planning out your landing.
Before landing you want to line your plane up as best as possible with the strip, using 'LT' and 'RT', and keep lowing yourself as low as possible, while lowing your power with 'B' and using the up and down arrows on the 'D-Pad' to adjust your flaps, these will slow you down. When coming into land you want to keep lowing your power by pressing 'B', I turn mine all the way down when I'm a few hundred feet away. Once off, I switch to holding 'X' and keeping my plane steady, don't use 'LT/RT' when about to land, as you have no speed and will crash. Let your plane gently go down by itself, once touched down, press left on your 'D-Pad', while still holding 'X', to turn on your parking brake, it's essential on the challenges with small strips.
If my text tips didn't help you, I'll link this video that gives some great tips on landing. Only thing I would change is the view, press the 'VIEW' button on your controller to change to the 3rd person view, unless you feel confident to land the plane from the inside, I honestly don't know why your reading this guide if you can.
All credit goes to "Squirrel" on YouTube. He also has some other tip videos that have helped me a lot through the game. Leave a comment if you have any other tips that have helped you.
34 Comments
Actually MikkDC, your comment is what made me get the achievement in the end after I got stuck on 83%. This game works in a weird way but I found out that it is totally possible for the game to track achievement progress only for the landing to either disappear in the log book or not be recorded (but achievement progress still remains).
Lets say that I play a challenge and it adds 4% to my achievement progress. That progress is saved in the achievement but for some reason not in the game. When you redo it, it's now added to the game but since you already progressed in the achievement, you wont see it move in your achievement tracker. But you may see it move in your in-game achievements via the pilot profile (you may have to do a couple until it moves).
If you're stuck, do as MikkDC said and review every single airport landing challenge 1 by 1 by searching for every airport in the logbook (use the 4-letter ICAO airport code). It's important that the 3rd number in the sequence is marked with the number 1. If it says something like 0000 then you have to redo it. If you can't find a record for an airport that you have landed on then the game has failed to mark it in the logbook and you also have to do it again.
Lets say that I play a challenge and it adds 4% to my achievement progress. That progress is saved in the achievement but for some reason not in the game. When you redo it, it's now added to the game but since you already progressed in the achievement, you wont see it move in your achievement tracker. But you may see it move in your in-game achievements via the pilot profile (you may have to do a couple until it moves).
If you're stuck, do as MikkDC said and review every single airport landing challenge 1 by 1 by searching for every airport in the logbook (use the 4-letter ICAO airport code). It's important that the 3rd number in the sequence is marked with the number 1. If it says something like 0000 then you have to redo it. If you can't find a record for an airport that you have landed on then the game has failed to mark it in the logbook and you also have to do it again.
By TorqueyBike2821 on 02 Jul 2022 23:47
I've found that if you bounce to much on a landing you'll see a takeoff as well as a landing in your Logbook and it won't count towards the progress percentage within the Landing Challenges screens but does seem to count towards Greased (however bad as long as you get the 'success' screen and even a C grade). I haven't worked out if you just need to get B's to get 100% in the landing challenges or a particular score. Mine were bad as I used an XBox controller!
For 'Greased' you can get any valid landing score, and, as of 21st August 2021 you only need to do the landings in the original game.
The progress doesn't always show immediately on the progress bar but gets there eventually. Today on the final group of 'Windy' challenges, progress went up after each landing and the achievement popped as soon as I'd finished the necessary 8.
For 'Greased' you can get any valid landing score, and, as of 21st August 2021 you only need to do the landings in the original game.
The progress doesn't always show immediately on the progress bar but gets there eventually. Today on the final group of 'Windy' challenges, progress went up after each landing and the achievement popped as soon as I'd finished the necessary 8.
By InfiniteLogic on 24 Aug 2021 00:07
