I don’t know if it’s always been like this, but if I’m spawning at an airport on the runway (bear in mind, I would never do this in an online session w/ others); I cannot pick just any runway I want.
When I click on the end of the runway I want, (the little circle lights up green) and click the departure button, a runway different than the one I originally selected will “light up” with a blue perimeter marking, and the green circle is now on a different end and runway than I had selected.
For example (I’ll include the screenshot as an attachment below):
When I was at KSFO and wanted to take off in the opposite direction than is usual (just for a change of pace), I selected rwy 10R, but when I clicked on the departure button, the [10L – 28R] runway lit up blue instead, and the simulator forced my plane to start on 28R.
For some reason I don’t recall it ever refusing my selection of “alternate runways” before-- even with live weather installed. I tried running in “Safe Mode” to disable my addons, and it made no difference. I tried selecting “Clear Skies” instead of “Live Weather” and it still wouldn’t let me select an alternate runway, other than what it wants me to use.
I thought maybe it had to do with the size of the plane. (Was the jet I had originally tried it with too big for the smaller runway I had tried at a different airport?). But I switched to testing with the Cessna 152, and it still exhibited the same issue.
Is this a new problem, since a new update?
Are others having the same problem?
I reckon most of you start cold & dark at a gate/parking spot, so you probably wouldn’t even notice this, but it’s still something a tad annoying to me. I feel even if it isn’t practical, I should be able to spawn at any runway I choose in the simulator. Thoughts? Thank you.
