There's no way around it if you want working dials. Or turn off "in-cloud effect"
Yep!
The "in-cloud-effect" in CFS3 is pretty gimmicky and I turned it off years ago.
The actual clouds rendered in WOFF obscure your vision just fine, as real clouds do in real life. There is no need to have the computer paste a "picture of fog" onto the screen when you fly into a cloud.