Constantly getting wrong runway assigned

[mtr75 653]

Last night, wind 110 at 20 knots, I got assigned runway 28 (exactly, perfectly the wrong runway), and this even though I had put in the approach in the world map flight planner prior to launching the flight. I just landed runway 10 anyway, but it seems I get assigned the wrong runway at least two times out of 3. 

[Todd2 2,201]

You should be able to pick which runway you are assigned to.

[jimcarrel 688]

Wind direction on automatically picked runway start always catches me. When will I learn. I see the wind direction and speed and I continually hit the fly button without considering the end of the runway that program puts me at. If I pick a parking spot, then things are fine. Us hard headed people will always have to drive to the other end of runway. I guess.

Edited November 2, 2020 by jimcarrel

[regis9 4,051]

I’ve noticed this a lot too, I’ve also noticed a lot of windsocks seem to be blowing 180 degrees from where they should be.  I wonder if there’s a connection?

[RichieFly 750]

Egg on my face too...

I usually set active weather and then the Fly button. And it seems, without fail, I'm placed at the wrong end of the runway. A bug, I guess.

And since were here, talking about wind direction; I wonder why they have the wind arrow, in the weather settings dialog, pointing in the wrong direction? At least to my way of thinking. This is also true with DCS. When pointed out to the DCS developers, they replied that's the way we do it and it's too late now at any rate. To be clear, in DCS, the arrow points to where the wind is coming from, not where it's going. That seems bass-ackwards to me.

[UAL4life 252]

Yeah before the update it was fine. Now it’s wrong every time. 

[Virtual-Chris 682]

How can we know what's wrong.  In my G1000, the PFD shows the wind 180 degrees off compared to the indicator on the MFD.  What is correct?

Someone else says the wind sock is blowing the opposite direction?  Is it the windsock that's wrong or the avionics indicator or the ATIS or what?

Maybe ATC is assigning you the right runway but the wind indicator is 180 degrees out?

Edited November 2, 2020 by Virtual-Chris

[regis9 4,051]

Good questions, I wish there was an in game option (or a mod failing that) that will just give a read out of current weather conditions.  I find myself guessing as well as to what is actually true in the sim weather.

[mattn 45]

In the last asobo Q&A they talked about this a bit. It seems the airports actually get METAR based data, and when in the air away from the airport, you get the model-based weather with upper level winds etc. 

Its possible the 2 get out of synch, and/or perhaps the sim is generating its runway selection based on the model data and not the METAR. 

If the METAR is old etc, obviously that could cause this kind of scenario. 

[mtr75 653]

4 hours ago, RichieFly said:

To be clear, in DCS, the arrow points to where the wind is coming from, not where it's going. That seems bass-ackwards to me.

It is. Wind of 270 is from 270 (the west) and the arrow should point east. If that makes sense. 

[mtr75 653]

1 hour ago, regis9 said:

Good questions, I wish there was an in game option (or a mod failing that) that will just give a read out of current weather conditions.  I find myself guessing as well as to what is actually true in the sim weather.

You can see it in the world map if you zoom in to your departure and destination. It's wrong, but you can see it! 

[Glenn Fitzpatrick 3,799]

Traditionally wind direction is where it comes from, an easterly wind is coming from the East etc .

[jimcarrel 688]

5 hours ago, RichieFly said:

Egg on my face too...

I usually set active weather and then the Fly button. And it seems, without fail, I'm placed at the wrong end of the runway. A bug, I guess.

And since were here, talking about wind direction; I wonder why they have the wind arrow, in the weather settings dialog, pointing in the wrong direction? At least to my way of thinking. This is also true with DCS. When pointed out to the DCS developers, they replied that's the way we do it and it's too late now at any rate. To be clear, in DCS, the arrow points to where the wind is coming from, not where it's going. That seems bass-ackwards to me.

Yea, DCS always has been a sore spot concerning wind direction and it's presentation on the map, But again, that's me not learning different locals depicting it different on a map