I have a gut feeling, this has been already reported but likely passed over when searching due to misspellings or uncommon title/description. Here it is anyways. (Or maybe the bugs are being automatically closed.)

I also noticed this might be already linked to the latest developer changelog entry "Removed fully script commands: setVehicleInit, clearVehicleInit, processInitCommands."

Some quick work arounds:

1. Modify your map to have 20+ choppers and vehicles.
2. Allow the server to be restarted, however you'll never experience night if the game doesn't sync to real world time.

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