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cruise wrote:

In FS2002, when flying IFR with ATC, on approach I am given vectors
to a particular runway at any given airport. Is there any way of
requesting a different runway?

If it works the way I think it does, it offers you the runway which points into
the wind, as best as possible, so it should be the best choice already. I admit
it can be a pain when you approach from a particular direction and get vectored
all the way round to land in the opposite direction. Being in the UK myself, I
expect westerly prevailing winds but, in spite of that, more often than not I
get offered R08R, landing at Gatwick.

I'm guessing that it's not so much a matter of 'favourite' runways though, more
one of making sure you're offered one that's the right length for a large
airliner and not being offered that piddly little grass runway, just because it
happens to be pointing into the wind, on the day, right?

I'm switching to FS2002Pro next week and will find out what you mean but I get
much the same ATC control at the moment by using Flight Shop, with FS98.

For anyone still using it, who is interested, the trick is to edit the fsadv.ini
file and change the 'long runway length' value to 6500 or whatever suits your
favourite airliner. Save and exit. Now run FSADV.EXE and edit the runways
database. All you need do now is to edit the runway length to below this minimum
requirement, instead of deleting it completely. That way, should you wish to fly
with ATC control to this airport in a light aircraft, you can compile the
adventure without the 'long runway requested' option and be sure of a full range
of runway options on arrival.

Next, reload the flight plan, delete the affected airport from the plan list,
then add it back again and save the new plan (or else the amendments aren't
detected, it seems). Recompile the adventure ("upload flightplan to FSS") and it
should work more like you expect.

In my case, I knobbled EGKK R08L/26R by shortening it, because that seemed to be
ATC's prefferred offer for takeoffs as well and it's the shorter of the two,
when it's not being used as a taxiway.

It obviously never occurred to the programmers to add a 'runway closed' checkbox
and it takes another level of sophistication again to handle "R08R Mon, Wed,
Fri-Sun, closed Tue, Thu for maintainance".... g



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regards,

Mark
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