by Capt.Propwash » Tue Feb 02, 2010 1:25 pm
file your flight plan as normal in FS9. When you get close to airport of choice, Contact ATC and request the runway of your choice. or File IFR Flight plan and then "expect vectors to final" from ATC.
all the flight planner does is get you from Airport A, or Airport B, via VOR; Direct; Low or High Victor Airways. It is still the responsibility of the pilot (be it virtual or real) to talk to the Air Traffic Controller and to make the decisions regarding take off / in flight details / landing.
Example: Capt. "Sully" Sullenberger, USAIR 1459.. ATC was trying to get him to go back to LGA, or other airports in the area. He told ATC, "We'll be in the Hudson" very calmly. He made the choice/decision that he could not get to an airport so he picked the next best place to save THOUSANDS of lives, not only those on the plane but on the streets of New York too.
YOU are the one at the controls, if you want RWY36 instead of 9, then ask ATC for clearance for 36. Unless it is closed for whatever reason, they will give it to you.
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