Tidji Posted June 7, 2015 Posted June 7, 2015 I'am surprised that the wind direction is not taken into account by tower when you request takeoff. I just made a test in Batumi with a strong wind coming from 305, and the tower give tell me to takeoff on runway 31. It may be interesting to match reality to take this important parameter into account.
Grimes Posted June 7, 2015 Posted June 7, 2015 Some airbases don't switch the runway, the rest of them do. As far as I know there are two main reasons for this. 1. Departure/arrival from a given direction is dangerous. 2. The airbase isn't designed for it. For a few bases on the coast the first reason is the cause. Sochi, Batumi, Novorosick, and Ghelenzick all have runways roughly perpendicular to the coastline with some sizable hills/mountains in the opposite direction from the Black Sea. For these bases the glide slope is probably in the hills at somepoint. The right man in the wrong place makes all the difference in the world. Current Projects: Grayflag Server, Scripting Wiki Useful Links: Mission Scripting Tools MIST-(GitHub) MIST-(Thread) SLMOD, Wiki wishlist, Mission Editing Wiki!, Mission Building Forum
cromhunt Posted June 7, 2015 Posted June 7, 2015 Rtiway in use? A Wind coming from 305?what is so strange with tower point out the runway 31? Runway 31 means that you have to take off heading to 310. Thus you will be front of Wind.
Joni Posted June 7, 2015 Posted June 7, 2015 telling you to take off from runway 31 is exactly what they would tell you in real life... Intel Core i5-8600k + Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO | Gigabyte GTX 1070 Aorus 8G | 32GB DDR4 Corsair Vengance LPX Black 3200MHz | Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 3 | WD Black SN750 NVMe 500GB | Samsung 850 EVO 250GB | WD Green 240GB | WD Caviar Black 1TB SATA 3 | WD Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 3 | EVGA 650 GQ 80+ Gold | Samsung CF391 Curved 32" | Corsair 400C | Steelseries Arctis 5 --- Razer Kraken X Lite | Logitech G305 | Redragon Dyaus 2 K509 | Xbox 360 | Saitek X-52 Pro | Thrustmaster TWCS | TrackIR 5
Tidji Posted June 7, 2015 Author Posted June 7, 2015 My mistake, in the test the wing was coming from 125 thus having the wind in my back at takeoff. In conclusion, mission makers have to take into account the restrictive environnement conditions of the base they will use for takeoff and set the wind conditions according to this.
Tidji Posted June 7, 2015 Author Posted June 7, 2015 I just made another test at Krymsk, and according to the wind direction the tower give you the right runway. That's an interesting feature i didn't know. So this works for airports with no restrictions.
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