I can’t find this information published anywhere.
What I mean is, what runway is typically used for take-offs and which for landings when an airport has multiple parallel runways (as many do).
For example, in Vancouver, Runway 8L/26R is used exclusively for landings. Runway 8R/26L is used for take offs. How do you find this out?
I want to use the right runway on my flight plans. But the Sim and SimBrief don’t consider this. For example SimBrief had me departing Vancouver on 8L. That’s nonsense. It would never happen.
tune into the airport atis or awos or listen to radio and hear what runways they are using
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I want to use this to plan a flight before I get in the aircraft though. Some of this information should be published somewhere. For example, every flight dispatcher knows NOT to plan a departure on 8L/26R in Vancouver, but how do they know this?
Can be TORA/ASDA (takeoff run available, accelerate stop distance avbl - accelerate to V1, abort t/o and come to a stop before rwy end), local restrictions like EDDF RWY 18 t/o only etc.
All info avbl in NOTAM (short term) or AIPs (long term/permanent). The dispatcher has all this info avbl.
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Right, but remember this is only a plan. The Captain can request to use a specific runway for any number of reasons (usually for better numbers); this doesn’t mean he’ll get it, but my point is there are departures on that runway - just not frequently. 99% of the time we don’t plan specific runways at all, the load planner runs his numbers against what the plane can take off on safely.
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I’m starting to think that flight plans must not include runway assignments and leave that to ATC assignment. And the fact that flight planning tools we use include runway assignments are not realistic.
They typically don’t in the actual flight planner itself - it’s impractical to utilize runway to runway planning; too many variables change to allow for that a lot of the time. I’ve used both Jeppesen and NavBlue flight planners, and have never done it - we plan routes (sometimes utilizing company routes) based on weather, notams and company policy and leave the rest to the two knuckle heads in the cockpit 
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They are not realistic. I’ve never seen the option to plan a specific runway like you can in SimBrief. It’s a great tool, but while we plan the SID and STAR for a specific set of runways that utilize them, we don’t actually select a runway. At least not in the two programs I’ve used for commercial flight planning.
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Thanks, I thought I was losing my mind.
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No problem. We have tools available that are built in that will show us runways that should not be used (IE if wind speed breaks our crosswind limit or tailwind limits, or if a runway is completely out of service) but nothing that specifically selects one 