Registration plate in cockpit becomes blank
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I was unable to catch the very moment when it happened but the in-cockpit registration placard consistently, on almost every flight, turns blank (the actual registration mark disappears), leaving a white rectangle frame.
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I've noticed this with every aircraft in MSFS. On the inside of the cockpit, I use the same registration plate as every other aircraft in the sim. It's just one of those things that happens very rarely on a normal flight, but when you're a developer and constantly reloading the aircraft, it's something I see almost daily. I've always wondered what causes this too, so I will look at some of the underlying logic next time it happens.
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I assume the aircraft add-ons I usually spend time with do not feature this kind of dynamic plate as I haven't witnessed the disappearing phenomenon before. Interestingly, however, I logged over 150 hours on your amazing King Air and over 100 hours on the Baron and never came across this either.
Last night I started a real-time ferry flight from EGSS to CYTZ via BIKF and CYFB, and was consciously watching what happens with the plate as I was aware of it often disappearing. The entire flight (3 legs, 15 hours including turnarounds) was carried out in one continuous flight sim session (a very stable simulator, and a very stable aircraft!). On the first 3:45 leg from EGSS to BIKF, the plate was there. On the second 5:10 long flight from BIKF to CYFB it was still there, too. So I thought it must be repaint (skin)-dependent. Then I stopped looking. I noticed after takeoff from CYFB that the plate was already blank. I wish I spotted the precise moment it disappeared, which could have suggested why it happened. It was night time and I turned the internal lights on and off many times during the session, with many engine startups and shutdowns.
I appreciate you looking into the mystery.
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Have noticed this also, happens to many aircrafts wich you load pax and fuel in the sim and not via EFB. But less frequent if you first load the aircraft, set a flightplan and last load fuel and PAX
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Interesting. I wouldn't be surprised if it was related to the "open flight log at shutdown" bug, since that would mimic the aircraft reloads that I've seen cause this problem. Like I said, I will see what I can see, but the interior registration plate JavaScript is dead simple, so I suspect this is a little deeper of a simulator issue.
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In another plane (A2A PA24 Comanche) I noticed that this happened after putting a livery in my community folder that used a particular font.
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