Afcad/Active Runways?

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Hallo Marius,

im Flusi ist es grundsätzlich schon möglich, zwei Runways gleichzeitig zu verwenden, allerdings geht es nur, wenn diese parallel verlaufen. Bei sich kreuzenden RWYs (und das gilt wohl auch für die Konstellation in LOWW) ist dies wegen der komplexeren Berechnungen bei gleichzeitigen An- und Abflügen nicht möglich.

Eine Erläuterung der augenblicklichen Möglichkeiten findest Du auch in der readme-Datei zu Lee Swordys AFCAD-Programm:

Active Runway Selection:

The rules which FS ATC uses to decide which runways to make active are not fully understood, but here a few things we know:

ATC can use two or more runways at a time for takeoff and landings, but they must be parallel. It won't use crossing runways. This is no doubt to avoid the complexities of keeping crossing arrival and departure aircraft streams separated, both on the runways and the approaches.

When two separate runways are in use, ATC will not divide the load evenly between them, but instead it will assign the runway closest to the direction the aircraft is arriving from for landing. So at an airport with parallel East/West runways, all traffic arriving from the North will land on the northernmost runways, and all traffic from the South will land on the southernmost runway(s). This is also, no doubt, to prevent separation problems with crossing arrival/departure streams. For takeoff ATC will assign the closest runway to the parking spot.

Propeller aircraft are often directed to shorter runways than jet aircraft. This seems to be keyed to the engine type field in the .air files.

Tschüß
Erich]