Since runway 12L/30R at MSP is closed in real life for repairs I decided go for the realism and close the runway with AFCAD in FS2004. Now I got AI traffic only landing on runway 12R/30L and I get 50 airplanes trying to land at once on a single runway. I wind up seeing AI planes disappear in midair and having to go around 5 times before I land. Is there a way to open up runway 17/35 for use of all times and sometimes runway 4/22. I also get a lot of traffic incursions on the ground where AI traffic will halt on the taxiway until its removed by FS. I have Blueprint's KMSP installed.

As far as I know, you need to set up a crosswind to get ATC to assign the other runways. As in real life, wind direction plays an important roll in runway usage.Bob

You need to look at the afcad file supplied with Blueprint's KMSP. Open it up in AFCAD221 and list the runways. If you see a included some really short runways place between the 12/30s and 17/35 about seven degrees apart then you have the pseudo runways that would let FS see 17/35 as a parallel to the 12/30s. This is called the STAR or CROSSWIND RUNWAY technique.It is described in part here:http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthrea...light=crosswind