How to select active runway?

How does one get the sim to use a specific runway? I’m not using live weather or traffic. I’m flying the CRJ starting from the gate. I’ll enter the departure SID / STAR in the MS flight plan and even set the wind so that it favors the runways I want to use. However, once I’m in the game, I find that often, the airport has another runway in use.

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Runway in use is determined by the prevailing wind conditions, but there is also a preferential runway system.

Since you are not using live weather, the easiest way to “force” a specific departure direction is by manually setting a wind component that will make the airport switch to the runway you like, however if there are parallel runways, selection of L/R might not be the one you wanted.

Or if you don’t like wind, just ignore ATC and take off as you like, and request IFR clearance after you’re airborne.

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