Taxi clearances can be circuitous at times

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Are you using Developer Mode or made changes in it?

No

Have you disabled/removed all your mods and addons?

Yes

Brief description of the issue:

Taxi clearances issued by ATC sometimes make little sense. For example, at KHIO taxiway A goes the entire length of 13R/31L and connects to the south and west parking areas. Yet, the AI has issued taxi clearances to 13R that involve crossing 13R/31L at taxiway C, then turning left and making my way to the north, then crossing over gravel to finally arrive at 13R, where the clearance could have simply been “taxi to 13R via A, cross 2/20”.

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Detailed steps to reproduce the issue encountered:

Start from KHIO parking, request taxi for south departure, hilarity ensues.

PC specs and/or peripheral set up if relevant:

XBOX series X

Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:

1.29.30.0

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This looks more like a bug with the airport (big shock there). According to the chart, there is no taxiway between the 13 ends, so ATC shouldn’t be able to route you that way. Taxying any underwing engined plane over gravel would be extremely hazardous - both to the plane due to gravel ingestion, and to anything or anyone behind due to blowing gravel kicked up by the exhaust.

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Or perhaps the AI is trying to infer a path off of the satellite imagery, and mistaking a vehicle path for a taxiway. If that’s the case, shouldn’t the AI be going off official documentation and not a satellite image?