Hello, I have a strange problem with my FS9. Mostly ATC is giving me wrong rwy for TO or landing, which doesn't correspond with actual wind. I noticed this behavior in Prague (LKPR), Frankfurt (EDDF), LAX, and Anchorage PANC. What happens - let's say the wind is 240/12. At LKPR, there's RWY 24 for this scenario, but I get RWY 31 which is shorter than 24. At EDDF, there are RWYs 25L and 25R, but I get 07L or R. LAX is similar to that. At PANC it was completely strange, because I was told to land on RWY 14 with wind from west (250 °), while departing aircraft were on 32! And there are RWYs 25L and R.I use Active Sky 6.5 for weather and Radar Contact 4 for ATC. Running FS9 on Windows 7 64bit.Could someone please help?

I had a similar problem and got around it by doing the following: Load up FS9 in the normal way, select the aircraft you want, load a flight plan or what ever you do in Flight sim, so your aircraft is sitting at gate, ramp or runway. Double click the Active Sky Icon which I have on my Desk Top and let it load up. You will see that Active Sky has loaded; obviously by the change of weather and the green strip that runs across your screen giving you the weather data. Once Active Sky has done its thing, minimise Flight Sim. In the Active Sky Box (which you should see on the Desk Top already opened) click 'Refresh' which will reload the weather data and then on the bottom right hand corner click I think the button is called 'Refresh AI or 'Reload AI'(sorry I am writing this at work)Once done, you should find that planes should be taking off more in correspondance with the wind direction. I found this at London-HRW (EGLL) the wind in England normally comes from the South West meaning that planes should be taking off from 26L or 26R and I could never understand why planes were taking off from 8R or 8L. Try the above. It worked for me. Good luck. Tristan

Thanks, Tristan. That Refresh AI button did the trick! At least for departure airport.

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In AS65 make sure the option to force global weather mode is not enabled. This forces destination weather to be the same as where your airplane is at and can cause weird AI behavior with constantly changing destination weather as you approach it. This gives ATC a difficult time in establishing the runways AI are using since it takes time for AI to respond to wind changes.AS65 works best if you load your flight plan into it and process it after it has received real world weather. For me I prefer to download the Z-time archive of the FS departure Z-time of the flight location I loaded. I don't use system time in FS but that of the saved flight, usually cold and dark and parked at a gate. It is important to have the correct season and time of day so solar effects for the locality are accounted for such as convective activities.After the flight plan is processed in AI I click the weather refresh. About a minute after the weather writes are complete I hit the AS AI refresh button. This within a minute updates the weather environment and restarts the AI now being influenced by the new weather and updates ATIS reporting. I then do the RC START about a minute later since weather has now stabilized. By the time the aircraft has been through its preflight setup AI should be stable so after your RC clearance RC ground has the AI pattern which has priority in runwy assignments.

Thank you both, guys. I clearly made a mistake while starting AS before starting FS! If all the answers for problems with FS were that simple. Now starting AS after loading the flight everything works as expected. Thanks again!

Once done, you should find that planes should be taking off more in correspondance with the wind direction. I found this at London-HRW (EGLL) the wind in England normally comes from the South West meaning that planes should be taking off from 26L or 26R and I could never understand why planes were taking off from 8R or 8L. Try the above. It worked for me. Good luck. Tristan

You must be using a very out of date afcad. Although the rwys were designated 26L-08R/26R-08L that was many many years ago. They have been 27L-09R/27R-09L for a very very long time and those designations are still current. May I suggest you update!!!!!!vololiberista

I think for runway renumbering (caused in the real world by changes in magnetic deviation typically every ten years) you need to install a complete updated scenery and it takes more than AFCAD. An ADE9X produced file might allow this. I know I read about runway renumbering problems somewhere. Added runways do not pose a problem.