Flight planning question

[Guest Sartori23]

I've a small problem with creating flight plans. The problem is figuring out the active runway at the arrival airtport in FS9. Right now I'm just taking a guess based on the prevailing winds at the departure airport. Works ok for really short hops, but going from KONT to KGEG is another story. I fly the ZOOMR1.EPH approach at KGEG, and when programming the FMC I need to select a runway for landing. Where I run into a problem is while on approach, I find out I have, of course picked the wrong runway. I am set up for a left downwind for runway 210, but by the time I'm in range to contact KGEG tower and am cleared straight in for runway 3 my descent path istoo high to make the straight in app on rnwy 3. Wouln't be a problem if I knew ahead of time the active, but have yet to find a way how.I've tried unsuccessfully to alter the FP in the FMC at the last minute. The plane just went nuts on me though :)Of course if you've read this far you probably realize I am pretty new to this and have zero real world experience. I just love the challenge flying this wonderful machine presents. Hope someone can shed some light on this for me.ThanksCarl Moore

[SAS263 1]

Carl,using "only" your MSFS you, and the rest of us, are out of luck as I see it.The options you have is to invest in for instance FSMeteo (there are other programs, perhaps freeware). Using this software you can set a destination and the software will download and show the current weather. Use that info to make a "educated guess" as to which runway you

[Guest Sartori23]

Thanks Tord,I can't believe I didn't think of that myself. For some reason I never think of the real world weather in FS as being real world. It didn't ever occur to me to check the actual weather for the airport. :)Thanks for taking the time to respond.Carl MooreLOL, I just looked up the weather at KGEG. Winds calm, what luck :)