Microsoft Flight Simulator

Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Journeyman

Journeyman

Accumulate 500 hours of flight time in a single pilot profile.

50

0.24%

How to unlock the Journeyman achievement in Microsoft Flight Simulator - Definitive Guide

Easiest way to do this would be to start a flight that goes over the ocean, engage autopilot, then let it run for a few hours. I used to decrease sim rate (because it counts real-time so it makes the flight safer/longer) but some people are saying that sim-rate is making the game not count time during the flight. Unlimited fuel should still work as well, don't forget to enable that in the assistance menu.


The following guide is currently not working and was potentially patched:

This achievement (and other similar achievements, ie: 50 hours at night/IFR/rain) are considerably the easiest and fastest achievements in the game.

To speed these up, simply start a flight in whatever conditions you wish, fly for a couple minutes, pause the game, then tab out and change your computers date and time to sometime in the future, don't go crazy, just do about a week or less at a time, if you get the message that you lost connection, reset the time and try again with less of a time gap. Then simply go back to flying and watch the achievements role in.
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04 Sep 2020 00:01

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ToastBubbles, can you add the "we think this has been patched" text from your solution for Wing Commander here as well?
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By jrod39 on 20 Sep 2020 23:18
Fixed, thanks.
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By ToastBubbles on 20 Sep 2020 23:55
Just a quick heads up for everyone

I paused my game today and come back 3 hours later on a 37 minute flight, in my log book it shows 3 hours 37mins.

I have my Xbox set to instant on mode and it was turned off when I paused it.

So this means you can start a flight take off and turn Xbox off and if you come back a day later it will count 24 hours

Let me know if this works for yous

Hope this helps others get this achievement
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By ToonSoldier91 on 19 Nov 2021 19:31
Achievement did not pop… now at 506 hours on the profile page
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By SILVAF0XX on 12 Jun 2022 00:16
I’m stuck at 95% and 620 hours. No achivements
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By Sgt Malarkey Br on 30 Aug 2022 01:03
So I'm doing as the post above suggests and it is adding to my profile flight time (currently at about 495 hours) so in theory I should unlock this later today.

One thing to note however is that this game is buggy and often reverses progress towards certain achievements somehow. This has already happened to me on "jack of all planes" where I have a log of all planes being flown for 300+ hours and all have registered landings, yet I'm stuck at 95%! I'll no doubt have to do all of these again!!

In terms of hours flown, my progress stopped being tracked or logged at some point this year after one of the updates. Despite me flying many hours through the three bush trips I seems stuck on about 187 hours flown for ages. When I did make progress towards this, after a game restart it actually went back to 187 hours!

When I check my stats now, at the top it says 490 odd hours, but underneath where it says total secs flown, the number shown equates to about, yes you guessed it... 187 hours!!

This would explain why the achievement tracker is not progressing, but the big question is, when my profile shows a number higher than 500 will the achievement unlock??

I couldn't care about my stats frankly as long as it does unlock... if it doesn't then this idea of abusing the quick resume feature (or perhaps the other PC time alteration exploit) will probably be confirmed to be patched

I'll update when I know more, but if anyone has unlocked using this technique could check their total time flown in stats and convert it into hours it would be interesting to see if you also see this discrepancy

Silva
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By SILVAF0XX on 11 Jun 2022 09:37
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it's not really a solution but more information
If the game crashes your flight hour is canceled
For example if your total flight time is 295 then you go up to 310 and the game crashes your total flight time will return to 295 and not 310
So check your total hour in the game and not by statistics on console
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30 Aug 2023 12:59