Microsoft Flight Simulator

Yes, 500 DIFFERENT airports. It's a lot.

- You can load up the World Map, select a destination, and choose to make is as your arrival destination with no departure. You will start on approach to that airport. This makes it easier to tick them off if you're so inclined.

- You must actually land at the airport. Crashing won't help for this one, I'm afraid.

- You can check the log in your profile to see which ones you've successfully landed at.

I'm slowly working my way through this, so I'm not quite there yet. Best of luck!

Edit: BladedShepherd posted in the comments that there is now a MUCH easier way thanks to the GOTY update. BladedShepherd said:Wcbezoeker later elaborated on this.
Wcbezoeker said:I have not tried these yet, but it seems like good advice. Thanks!!

You have to land on the runway, not before it and taxi onto it. You also must stop on the runway. Do not taxi to a parking space before stopping. DO NOT use AI for this achievement. It will not count.

**Update: I have landed on the runway and then flipped the plane several times and it's still counted. It still counts as a stop if you wheels down on the runway and then stop moving. If you go off of the runway it will not count. Keep up with your tracker so you know that it counted.

First, do all the landing challenges and bush trips needed for achievements. Some of the bush trips are annoying and you may have to land outside of the runway and it will not count. Since these take so long, don't bother trying to land on all of them for the achievement. Just take what you can get. If you want to do the activities that come with the world updates, those will help with this achievement but are not needed for anything else. They are slower than the method below, but having some objectives to go to might make this a little less boring.

The world updates will add more airports to the game. I waited on downloading them until I was done with the all activities and Jack of all Planes achievements. I'm not sure if this matters or not, but I had seen where there were a few issues in the early days of the PC versions and did not want to risk any issues with those achievements. Another reason to do all the activities and 300 mile trips with each plane first.

The Grind:
You can just click on the airport and choose it as the arrival destination and it'll put you on the approach for what ever plane you have selected. I used the Flight Design CTSL. Most planes take the same time to approach, but many of the faster ones will crash before getting to the runway. The CTSL stops very quickly and is easy to land.

I turned on all assists in the options and turned off all notifications. This will mostly guide your plane to the runway. In most cases, I had to pull up a little bit at the end to make sure I landed on the runway itself. When you touch down, just hold X to stop and watch for the little save circle at the bottom right of the screen. Wait for it to stop spinning and return to the main menu for the next one. It'll take 2-4 minutes with loading for each airport. Expect to spend 25-30 hours just doing this method. It'll take much longer for normal flights.

Pick an area of the world you want to focus on. Pick something a little easier to keep up with such as New Zealand or the UK. Have a piece of paper or notepad on your pc and keep up with what you have landed on in that area. You can start another list when you move to a new area, so that it's easier to keep up with.
You will need to zoom in a bit to see a lot of the smaller airports.

Check your achievement tracker every 5 airports. It should move up 1%.

**Note**Out of the 50 or so I've done in the UK with this method, 2 have not counted. If you landed on it and stopped and don't think you did anything wrong, just move on. You could have another 2-5 done by time you figure out something is wrong. Just mark it on your list and move on.

The most fastest way to get this achievement is to enable slew mode with everything set to hard for assists.

You can enable the airport poi's to see the airports easier on Xbox consoles.. but on pc you can use a program called LittleNavMap to navigate even faster between airports.. Just put yourself on each runway with slew mode and go to the next one without even having to fly manually to all 500😁

Every time you put your aircraft with slew mode on the runway you see in the bottom right corner of the screen a loading circle appear.

When that icon is gone it is counted to your 500 landings airport achievement and you can go on to the next airport asap with slew mode!

You can than get the achievement in a day if you're really dedicated XD or in a day or 2 to 3🙂

also if doing on pc and with LittleNavMap its good to look at major cities as most of the times they have tons of smaller airports right next to each other.