LEMD (Madrid Barajas) Landing on Unavailable Runway

[SkillfulRob]

Brief description of the issue:
On approach to LEMD last night, I was cleared for straight in approach to Runway 36L. However, according to the charts (and the airport layout for that matter), you cannot use Runway 36L (or 36R) for landing, only departures. No matter what I did, I couldn’t get it to offer me a different runway.

[Iceman19763593]

This is not the only problem with LEMD. The sim is using 32L and 32R for takeoff too. This is totally wrong.

In real life.

North configuration
Departure 36R/36L
Arrival 32L/32R

South configuration
Departure 14L/14R
Arrival 18L/18R

[Exoniqe]

Just my case too in about 40-50% of cases. I used ASOBO Premium / Deluxe version.

[AlphaMA1]

I have reported similar issues at Frankfurt EDDF, which is a premium airport in the Deluxe edition, where I have been asked to land on RWY18 (which in real life is licensed for take offs only) and also been told to take off on RWY36 which is illegal as the runway is only licensed to operate in direction 180deg for takes offs…setting aside any issues of building clearances and conflicts with RWY25R these instructions would entail.

I have reported them to Asobo.
I suspect the sim does not have a comprehensive set of operation regulations and instructions for airports and simply applies some basic logic which says that any runway can be used in either direction if some wind criteria makes sense to operate it like that.

I would expect that a bit more work goes into major international airports, but especially so where they are one of the premium hand crafted airports in the base or the two deluxe editions, for which we paid extra money after all.

To be clear, I am not expecting them to incorporate all details of preferential runway selections (which LEMD has a few of) and all manners of night flight restrictions, though it would be nice if that were possible, but basic unpermitted runway operations should be built in. The total absence of SIDs, STARs and ILS/RNAV approaches for those runways should be a good starting point, although that logic would not applicable to many other airports.

I appreciate the fact that they cannot possibly program the changing operations regulations on 37,000 airports in the world, but LEMD (and EDDF in my case) are not exactally mid sized regional airports.