thanks very much to all of you for the help, i have now found the problem, microsoft uses run 8L so i took it for granted this was right,anyway ihave now found outif i use run 26L it all works!!! next time i will try to look more at things instead of taking things for granted, thanks again, great signiture rox!! bye for now, dodger uk.

FS changes the "default" rwy depending on wind direction. If you want to force use of 26L set the wind to come from the opposite direction.