Any Idea to get specific Runway for Take-off from MSFS ATC? Sometimes, there is no Option to Select Runway on IFR Clearance or Request for Taxi Menu !
If at a controlled field, you are constrained by the ATIS report which states which runways are active for arrivals/departures and if available, precision landings. So Ground will send you to the active and Tower will clear you. That’s not really a choice at least in the sim.
If at an uncontrolled field, you as pilot-in-command are responsible for picking appropriate runway, then announcing on the Field Common frequency (UNICOM) which runway you’re taking and departure pattern.
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Most of the Time, the SIM gives wrong active runway for Take-off from many Airports. This is the case with landing too.
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Curious. What makes the runway selection from ATC, “wrong”?
If only it did follow ATIS. At Manchester EGCC, there are two runways. One of them has been closed for months. The ATIS says SINGLE RUNWAY OPERATION in every broadcast, but MSFS ATC still uses the closed runway.
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Well.. for one thing, if the wind is coming from the west, you’d like to take off with your nose towards the west… tailwinds are notoriously hazardous in taking off procedures.
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That’s why I asked. It’s been a long time since I had encountered ATC assigning a runway that wasn’t into the wind. Maybe just where I fly.
I could be wrong but i think i was able to choose a different runway after i got the taxi instruction from ground. I don’t know if it was just for taxi or if it would also be used for departure.
VOGO Airport in India uses Runway 26, for Civilian Use most of the Time. Flightradar24 data also shows Runway 26 for Departures. But MSFS ATC always uses Runway 8 for Take-off.
1st you have to select either low or high level IFR flight under the plane selection in the world map.
2. Once that is done, then the type of departure from and arrival to locations are set, then that opens up the various types of departures and arrivals you can set.
Yes, you can be specific on arrival runway, but, as above, must have low or high level IFR selected, otherwise ATC aint got clue.
As an aside, you can download and install PMS50-GTN750 navigation unit, and setup your flight plan in that, several excellent videos on how that is done. Once mastered, no need for the buggy ATC built into the sim, although, have not taken my words to heart, still use it some.
It’s a regular thing for me. In many cases, ATC are even landing AI planes on the opposite end of the runway I’m assigned.
The only time I ever encountered ATC assigning a conflicting runway was when I was messing about with the world time. I suspected that I was getting different weather than the world ATC was operating in.
I’m getting it using live weather / time. In fact, I just had it happen to me again. I landed at KOPF with wind at 92/1. AI planes were landing on 09L. I was assigned 27R by ATC. Tail wind and opposite end of the runway AI are (correctly) using. It happens to me on a shockingly regular basis.
What runway was designated in ATIS as the active?
True, many times I am assigned an opposite Runway for Landing too than AI Planes. And also the wrong Active Runway.
That’s the problem. Even with a fully set up IFR flightplan the in-game ATC does weird things with runway selection. Like, lets say for instance I’m approaching PHNL, and had originally scheduled Runway 08L. I change my mind, because the winds change, and I want to land on 04R. I request that in-game, and ATC tells me sure - fly the approach to 04R, circle to land 08L. LOL. It’s like, NO that’s not what I wanted!
Game breaker? No. Annoying though.
It is desirable to get the Air Speed Indicator to rotation speed before the end of the runway.
So, any wind adds to the IAS above Ground Speed. 
If any of you visit EGBO Wolverhampton/Halfpenny Green, tarmac runway 10/28 is out of use by X markings.
ATIS might instruct 10 or 28. Don’t be fooled. Its a short unlicensed grass strip between the tarmac and the tower. 
Yes it was. It happens to me all the time at different airports. I’m assigned to land on the opposite direction of a runway that AI is being directed to by ATC. ATC / ATIS reports the runway I’m assigned as the active, even though AI is using a different one. A lot of people have been reporting this for many, many months now. This isn’t a new thing.
I’ve even had ATIS occasionally report departing and arrivals on the opposite ends of the same runway. That doesn’t happen often, but last time I remember it was a couple of days ago.
So, if I am reading this right, this is a case of the AI using the wrong runway, not you. You are being assigned the runway indicated by the ATIS and the ATC but the AI is not.
Is the AI, AI Traffic or Live Traffic?
Is it possible that the reason I have not seen this is that I have never had AI Traffic turned on? I exclusively use Live Traffic only.
No. The AI is being assigned the CORRECT runways by ATC based on wind direction. It’s ME getting the wrong approach.
And it’s Live Traffic (unmodded). I’m just using AI traffic as a generic term here.
It’s been doing this for me for the better part of a year now, and got worse with SU5.
I fly the same way I always have - Live Traffic + Live Weather + Live Time.
EDIT: To clarify - the wind direction ATIS is reporting is correct. Live Traffic is being assigned the correct runways for departures and arrivals. It’s me being assigned the wrong runways, despite ATIS reports being correct.