Trouble with weather and live players

[cantremember 27]

Hello, I'm having trouble with the live weather. 50% of the time, I choose live weather and there is not a single cloud, and the altimeter setting is the default 2992. I try changing servers etc. but nothing helps except quitting flightsim and restarting, then I have weather again. Until the next flight theres a 50% chance it's gone again and I have to restart. When the weather is gone, I do still have the tags of other players flying and the clouds on the world map.

 

Another issue I have is that I frequently fly with my dad. I tried adding him as a group member but still, it is extremely inconsistent whether or not we can actually see eachother. Often I see him but he doesn't see me or the other way around. When this happens sometimes we still see a ton of other players zooming around but we're invisible to eachother, again the only resolution is to quit flightsim and start over. (restarting the flight doesn't help).

 

Any idea what could be the problem? It's frustrating because it takes us half an hour to get started, and restarted, until we both have weather working AND multiplayer planes working right.

 

Another thing I wonder, is it possible to reduce the range that the nameplates of other players appear.