You start as an ambitious bush pilot who only has access to basic missions. Can you work your way up through the ranks? As you gain money and experience you will be able purchase new aircraft, gain higher qualifications, and fly new mission types!
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I have changed the thread from VA to MSFS as there is no possibility atm to create any kind of coalition or VA. at least I didnt find anything written about such possibility in the NF guide.
what is possible is to fly jobs in multiplayer.
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For some reason I felt the itch to buy something MSFS related so I jumped on this yesterday.
Bought the whole thing (pack still on sale, 50% off) and the voice addon, so I have everything they offer except the Cleopatra campaign, for 20 bucks.
Installed it (including bing key and so on) but havenât used it yet.
Any tips for beginners? Known pitfalls?
I admit it is a bit overwhelming and I am not sure what properly ties into the game and what doesnât.
But it sure sounds cool.
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Love it! The guide is pretty good at explaining things. But the basics are easy enough for even me to understand.
Load Neofly. Go to missions. There are various types that you can hover over and a few filters. They should be filtered for your planeâs and pilotâs stats.
Right click on one and select âFlyâ.
Go to Flying tab and your mission is here. For now, all the little lights will be amber.
Take note of the passenger and cargo requirement. This is a total weight AFAIK. So, 1 Pax and 190lbs of cargo seems to mean 1 190lb passenger (BTW, YOU are always 170lbsâŠcongratulations! You look great! 
). Also, cargo may (must in a 152) be put in the Pax seat. So this is really a weight mini game. If you are wrong, you will see on the flying page how over or short you are of weight.
Also, on the settings tab, thereâs a choice for auto fuel. If you click it, NF will sync your tanks with the sim.
You will probably default to half tanks unless you remember in MSFS to initially fill them. In any case, you will see the fuel load in the Hangar tab. Slide the slider and click the little button and you will âbuyâ fuel. Next to that there are also two little green (hopefully) lights. Thatâs your Hull and Engine status. Should be 100% now, but will degrade over time.
OK! Load the sim. Pick same plane as you have in NF. Go to the world screen and select the same airport as in NF. Load weather as desired. Pull up the weights screen in MSFS. Load the Pax/Cargo as per above. If you had checked the auto fuel setting in NF, ignore the fuel weightâŠit will be synched shortly.
Tab back to NF. Click fly or start
mission or whatever it says on the second line there, all lights should be green if everything is working as it should.
Back in MSFS, you will hear the sounds and dispatcher talking to you. If you loaded NeoPad it will have its own icon up in the options bar. Pull that up and you basically have a little EFB showing your destination. This is especially helpful when you are doing a mission to a non-airport location. Fly the flight. There are several bonus objectives that include soft landings, not over banking, getting close to a crash site, etc, that you can look up if you wish.
Most mission completions are tied to the parking brake, both loading and unloading. In any case the voice will tell you what you need to do. The NeoPad has a tab of triggering events, so you know that you are completed.
Go back to NF and you should have more money if you succeeded. Refuel and repair the plane if you just pounded the plane into a pasture like me. I think you need to have the engine off to refuel AFAIK.
Go back to the Mission tab.
Rinse.
Repeat.
Great fun! Especially the rescue missions. Iâve landed on a motorway track, up the side of a box canyon, and in someoneâs back yardâŠmostly, on that last one. 
Thereâs a lot more depth, but this will get you started!
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I did a couple of missions.
Nice so far.
But I need a faster plane. I think I added the Turbo Arrow IV to the database correctly. Now I only need a bit of money.
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The quickest way to get a cash inject is to get to an exploration pointâŠyou just have to land near it and then head home. They are marked by a magenta exclamation mark icon on the mapâŠyou just get one per day and the placement is randomâŠwhich means they are often at sea (sometimes way out there). I just hit todayâs and netted a cool $1.1M of Gold. 
You have to be on a mission to make the exploration point work⊠itâs all explained in the manual.
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I could read the manual, yeah⊠
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The only reason I mentioned the manual is that the exploration points require a separate mission to be active. I usually just pick something as close as possible to the exploration point.
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Yes, but then youâll miss the subtle pleasures of frustratingly pounding on the keyboard because you canât get something to workâŠwhich is clearly explained on page 3.
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read the manual and am really trying but, âstuckâ on the parachutist mission; every one is loaded and we get to the point where 3 thousand feet from the jump altitude the lady says they are beginning final preps. takes me a good few more min to climb to that alt so I circle the zone and at 10k fly over and put on my parking brake.
Nothing.
Maybe I didnât load my payload properly? Itâs green on the status board but has the note âcurrent payload: 340 Due:170 Missing: -170.â
Itâs a 3 PAX Mission and I loaded my plane with myself at 170, and 3 pax at 170. That message didnât change but the light is green soâŠI guess thatâs right? (VERY confusing way to communicate the status of the sim - neofly connection)
I have yet to fly a paradrop, so Iâm afraid that I canât be much help.
From the weight though, it sounds like you have more than the necessary load.
It seems several of the missions have very specific and sometimes non-intuitive triggers.
I actually asked about a helo add on in the Discord and I got a response within 20 min. Probably youâre missing something that everyone misses because itâs not obvious so theyâll identify it right off.
Yeah same here.
So far I have only flown cargo and sensitive cargo missions.
Gah, sometimes the world is cruel.
I just flew two missions of 40 minutes each.
The first ended when on landing the sim had a hiccup and thought I crashed. (I had a LOT of space there, I am sure I didnât crash. Maybe a faulty hit box of some object). No pay.
I then flew another one, a sensitive cargo. I landed with 202fpm, 200 is the limit. No pay. AAAAARGH.