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I was seeing odd behavior in my mission regarding taxi and takeoff at Borg El Arab International Airport (which also had landing traffic), so I made a clean mission and tried sending up F-4s from all plane parking spots. It seems the default with no wind is to take off on 32L, ignoring the other runway all together. I then put in some wind from 140 / to 320 to encourage the planes to take off in the other direction.

nullIt took 72 minutes to launch 29 of 44 aircraft, and 15 aircraft were unable to take off due to a traffic jam induced by a landing aircraft turning off the runway onto a taxiway with oncoming traffic. I don't know the correct procedure, so I yield that to the experts.

Parking 01 through 06 cut across runway 14L in order to get an extra ~175 meters of runway, despite using well under half the runway to take off. Fortunately these aircraft are all able to make it to the middle taxiway before the first aircraft locks down the 14L, allowing them to take off in quick succession. Perhaps they surrender the ~175 meters and take off directly by turning left onto 14L?

Parking 07 through 16 back cut across 14L before turning right to taxi down 32L.Perhaps they could taxi around to the parking area for 03 through 06, and follow the above suggestion?

Parking 17 through 20 did a back taxi down 14L. I don't know if they could take the first angled left to speed things up. Or if they could taxi around to 03 through 06 area and follow the above suggestion?

Parking 21 made it out before the other aircraft in the area.

Parking 33 is pictured stopped, waiting for clearance to continue taxi on the way to take off. Parking 33 through 44 unable to take off due to the traffic jam.

Without wind, taking off on 32L, all 44 planes were able to get airborn in a little under 90 minutes. Most of the added time was planes on the southwest side of the airfield back taxiing one-by-one down 32L. Planes on the northeast did not utilize 32R. It would be nice if this could improve, though I understand if there are limiations.

So with the wind, traffic is taking off and landing on 14L. There needs to be some logic to prevent landing aircraft from turning off onto occupied taxiways, or logic to have them fast taxi to the end of the runway before entering a taxiway to parking.

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