would it be possible to add an information at the initial instructions by delivery which runway can be expected? I usually depart from EDDH and because of the usual wind directions in northern Germany and the special airport layout, most of the time the 33 and the 23 have both wind from near their direction. In real world, when wind direction is something between 330 and 230 which is most the case the 23 is mainly used for landing and the 33 for take-off. And this is what exactly what PF3 ATIS is telling me, that both runways are I use, but I would need to know in advance to which runway PF3 Ground control will sent me for take off. One thing is that I need to program my MCDU with the runway and the departure and this is usually done at the gate. And on the other hand I need to know for the GSX pushback in which direction I want my nose. I had the situation already that I took a look at the incoming aircrafts by AI traffic and they landed at RW 23, though I expected RW 23 will be given to me and I put it into my flightplan and I was pushed with nose heading left on the taxiway. Then I got my taxi-clearance for take-off runway 33 and I needed to make a 180 degree turn and reprogram my flightplan. Of course I could set the runway assignments in PF3 for the 23 and 33 to allow only takeoff for one of them, but that's more a workaround. Id would be more realistic if clearance give you the information like "expect runway xx for takeoff" or something. It´s just that the information that PF3 uses to assign the take-off runway within the taxi-clearance, could be given also at the clearance for gate departure (delivery).
reg. Bernd