When selecting Free Flight, and on the next screen when selecting airports, can we remove the clouds when viewing the Earth to select the parking spots. It overlays the ground detail.
Wish 2: Can we get an option to just have a simple map to select the airports? Not photoreal imagery.
@ShezAnsari I’ve created your post in User Support Hub > User Interface & Activities as only 1 request is permitted per wish topic .
Clouds can be removed using the layer widget in the world map:
Click “Advanced”:
Then set the weather layer to off:
To see a simple map:
Click the layer widget in the world map:
then choose map view:
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Oh OK! Thanks for the point out.
Back to this. If I change the settings to the clouds, SU3/4 the setting does not remember this and on next start it displays clouds again.
The issue of these layer choices not being persisted across sessions has been occurring since before SU3 - see:
In MSFS 2020, we could see the actual live weather cloud coverage over the world map. It was very convenient to choose a place to fly based on weather condition.
In MSFS 2024, only the home screen background map seem to show the clouds. As soon as you enter free flight mode, the clouds disappear and I see no option / layer that I can trigger to s