Weather and Time Slider Options Greyed Out?

[ark 1,291]

5 hours ago, Alvega said:

In "Flight conditions" check that he has this button set to "All players" and not "Live players".

That worked!!  He had to turn on Multiplayer  on the General Options > Data menu, and was then able to select ALL PLAYERS as you showed above.

We both thank you very much!   😃

Al

[JonathanC 163]

8 hours ago, ark said:

That worked!!  He had to turn on Multiplayer  on the General Options > Data menu, and was then able to select ALL PLAYERS as you showed above.

We both thank you very much!   😃

Al

You can also choose Off (Group Only) if you don’t want to see multiplayer players. The time and weather will still work 

[Alvega 2,124]

8 hours ago, ark said:

That worked!!  He had to turn on Multiplayer  on the General Options > Data menu, and was then able to select ALL PLAYERS as you showed above.

We both thank you very much!   😃

Al

Nice, and as JonathanC said he can also select Off (Group Only) if he doesn't want to see other players. That's what I usually have selected on mine. 👍

[JYW 2,982]

So frustrating how you cannot change weather for a saved flight.   I can't understand why this constraint exist.  Surely the parameters of the flight can be re-loaded (including the weather) but the weather could then be 'released' and should be able to be saved.

I never used save flight purely because of this limitation.

[hs118 707]

1 hour ago, JYW said:

So frustrating how you cannot change weather for a saved flight.   I can't understand why this constraint exist.  Surely the parameters of the flight can be re-loaded (including the weather) but the weather could then be 'released' and should be able to be saved.

I never used save flight purely because of this limitation.

The only solution that has worked for me is in this thread:

How save a flight with variable weather? - Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) - The AVSIM Community

Basically, create a weather present and manually edit the saved flight. Not perfect by any means but does allow a saved flight with changeable weather and time of day.

[Christopher Low 5,354]

I noticed something else regarding the weather. If I change the altitude of the underside of the base layer in the Scattered Clouds option before loading a scenario, it does not save the new selection. It seems that I have to load the aircraft into the simulator first, and then change it. A relatively minor issue, but yet another quirk of the simulator.