Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
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• Seems connected to how liveries or 3rd party planes and liveries are “read” by the game. Happened to me with AN-2 liveries. An-2 is particularly badly “imported” in MSFS2024 as it has 3 variants in one group (i.e. appears as a separate plane), one variant in a second group and a 3rd livery alone (white) in another group. I noticed and solved the bug with AN-2 liveries but I have noticed the bug previously with other liveries installed and I didn’t gave much attention at that moment… only when I was trying to make some An-2 liveries to work I observed systematically the bug appearing And one more info:
In the case of An-2 some liveries install as separate “variants” of the plane… efectivelly appearing as 4rth and 5th etc An-2 in the list… One livery occupies 4rth An-2 “slot” and has the Ski, the Garmin and the Floats version and another appear as a 5th An-2 and has the “classic version of AN-2” And these work without issues. But there are “simpler” liveries for An-2 that have only the classic An-2 and they connect through model files to the “white” An-2. And here is the clue!
I have 3 liveries… all files and all json and aircraft and texture and manifest etc etc etc file are the same minus the naming inside the aircraft.cfg and difference in textures (one is lemon one is marron lets say). All files are checked with compare in notepad++ several times… there are no errors what so ever!!! One livery almost every time works… it will appear as a variant in the “white” An-2 model! But… if I activate more than one… I have 3… if I activate 3 of them then I get either all missing or one missing but then some of the “default” An-2 variants disappear.
Please (devs) I must insist there are no problems in the files… tripled check them. One livery from 3 (doesn’t matter which) works almost every time, 2 starts to have problems every other launch of the sim and 3… is the worse… 3 at the time makes the bug appear instantly.
Again… no duplicate naming no errors no nothing. It seems the game fails to interpret multiple variants of the same plane at some point… although it should see them as Liveries and not variants or different planes.
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but fingers crossed it solves the problem!