Wind sock blowing one way, ATC clearance opposite

Anyone notice ATC routinely clears takeoff/landing the opposite of the way the field wind socks are blowing?

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The socks have always been wrong.

What does the ATIS say as far as winds?
I don’t know if windsocks are still incorrect but there has been a bug around for a long time:

If someone can confirm that this is still a problem in 1.13.16.0, I’ll move this post into the new Bugs & Issues category. (It’s in the old, archived Bugs & Issues category right now.)

Probably explains my issue at a default airport the other day.

When Asobo gives you an object, it places it with it’s direction at 180 degrees (god knows why they made this choice)

For a windsock to work properly, it must be placed oriented at 0 degrees. I hoped at least Asobo got it right in the airports they’ve created. Apparently not all (any?)

As previously described, from the dev perspective, some handcrafted or freeware sceneries have 180 degrees wrong direction windsock. It’s a matter of 2 clicks and rebuild the package in the Scenery Editor for the developper.

I’ve run across this in default scenery as well.

I found this at Barra yesterday. Thought I was going mad!

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