A bit more diagnosis:
Here are two screenshots from the cockpit spawning into LGMG at noon from two separate runs of MSFS2024
- Start MSFS
- Set start airport LGMG
- Set weather Few Clouds
- Set in-sim time to noon
- Clicked “Start Flight” (all these steps done within 1 minute of entering sim)
- Screenshot the view out the cockpit.
(then return to main menu & exit the sim. Rinse and repeat)
Given the Asobo internal knowledge of what the sim’s doing, it’d be super-useful to learn of a practical workaround if one exists. We have coordination via Discord working quite well with groups of up to 30, so anything using that would be doable.
Or if the weather engine is initialising the cloud drawing algorithm with truly random numbers, maybe those could be derived from something fixed we can seed e.g. the lat/long of the start airport so the cloud starting positions and development are repeatable for a given group flight.