Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

Walking is new for 2024. Your first opportunity to do so will be immediately as you start career. Run around, a lot, to grind this out as you play through the various missions.

Pick the first training mission in the list. Smooth flying and follow the instructions - this is easy enough to unlock. If you struggle, come back after more practise in the career or elsewhere.

Easy to do at any time - just go into World Photographer and take any photo. It doesn't have to be a 3-star perfect photo.

Enter photo mode with either LB+RB on Xbox, or Shift+V on PC.

This can be done as part of the Career

See also Thrillseeker - and note you can repeat the same challenge for continued progress (i.e. you don't need to wait for fresh challenges when they refresh each Monday).

Once you start your career after the initial flight you'll be able to take your PPL certification flight - although some landing practise first is recommended.

This is a fairly simple grind; just stay in the air for that long. You'll get most/all of this progress naturally through playing the game and working toward the other achievements - e.g. Wind Whisperer gets you a chunk of the way there for gliders.

Once you've got a commercial license, just grind for cash to 25k credits and then the game will let you create a company. However recommend you wait to 35k credits and create a cargo company as cargo missions are much more lucrative

See Multifaceted Photography for the first four pages to pick. Then just grind out the rest.

These can all be accessed off the main menu in the game, and you'll want Aced It! for getting an A grade in at least one of them. The in-game menus make it easy to keep track of and work through them all.

Just start a flight, any flight, and its yours. It's impossible to play the game without getting this.

Yup, you just need to grind this one out.

You'll buy your first aircraft as soon as you get to create a company for Entrepreneurial Spirit. Creating a cargo company is recommended as cargo missions are far more lucrative than Flightseeing.

Buy more planes as you progress and earn more credits!

If you pick the helicopter side of the career most of this will come naturally as you complete helicopter missions to progress.

This doesn't actually need 3 completed in each - various reports of unlocking with less than that; e.g. only 2 Challenge League, only one World Photographer.

Either way, you'll be progressing all three types anyway for various other achievements, so this will pop soon enough without any special effort directed towards it.

You should get Scrapbooking as you complete the first of these. And unlocking this one gets you a chunk of the way towards Expanded Portfolio

Just go into Challenge League and complete each of the three challenges shown at the time - once you've done them it'll pop. This can be done anytime.

This is a good amount of flying, but nowhere near as much as was required in the previous game. A lot will come naturally as you progress other achievements - particularly the Career mode - but basically just don't hurry, and enjoy the view!

Once you start the career you'll see the circular tree of all the certifications/qualifications you can unlock - fixed-wing on the left and helicopters on the right.

This is currently unobtainable because the last two certifications are not available yet - expect them to be added in a future game update.

You'll need a lot of cash (~675,000 credits) to get through this - operating a cargo company and running long-haul cargo missions is likely the quickest way to build up the cash.

The game explains what is required in a photo to get three stars, and you can make multiple attempts in the same flight to get it right. Just do this three times, doesn't matter where.

See Multifaceted Photography which requires four specific collection pages - so maybe get this as one of those four :)

Grind this out whilst also going for Scrapbooking and Multifaceted Photography

This can be done in Free Flight in one or two flights by picking locations that are dense with landmarks; e.g. Paris, London or New York. Set a landmark as your departure position to start in the air and pretty close to the first one.

It helps to have the Xbox achievement tracker (or Game Bar; Win+G on PC) open so you can see more quickly when the progress ticks up and when its time to move on to the next landmark.

You'll get Challenger on the way to this. It's quite a grind, but each challenge doesn't normally take too long.

Note you can repeatedly do the same challenge for continued progress (i.e. it still counts even if you've already done the challenge before).

But its still a big grind - we recommend doing a few each time you play, intermingled with other flights you're doing so you can build it up without having to spend too long repeatedly doing the same thing.

A touch-and-go landing is where you land at an airport, but instead of stopping just keep going down the runway and take off again, without stopping.

To do this twice in a session, pick two airports close to each other on relatively flat ground and it'll be easy enough. You can use any plane.

Fly in a glider. Maybe easiest somewhere with no coastline (no wind) like the Australian outback. Start a free flight and just let it glide.

Note the 20 minutes doesnt have to be in one flight - its cumulative.

Quit once the achievement pops, or carry on flying to accumulate time towards Eclectic Eagle

As soon as you create a company (for Entrepreneurial Spirit) you can purchase a plane and use it on a mission to unlock this.

Note; choose a Cargo company (not Flightseeing)!