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Does weather have any influence in "active runway"?

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Last night I was messin' with Kai Tak airport (Fly Tampa), and set the aircraft to the "active", which was rwy 31. So that got me thinking (scary, I know).

How does one change the active in P3D? I mean if I read correctly, FSX uses a complex formula of airport attributes, weather and wind to determine the active, right? But there are no weather options like wind direction or wind speed in P3D.

So P3D has no default weather other than themes I guess. So I went to ADE, closed take-offs and landings for 31 and "bingo" I was on rwy13 (and so was my AI). But I know that in FSX that closed runway can be overridden with external forces played upon it but not sure about in P3D. Forgot to test this with my Opus weather to see if this can override my selection.

Thoughts?....
 
I am pretty sure weather is settable in P3D... and it makes me wonder why would it not be settable from UI.

Anyway as far as I can see, the main thing FS looks at is the wind direction. In case of calm wind, it would normally assume wind to be 000/00 and chose the runway that is closest to northbound. Things like IFR approach consideration and such only kicks in when the weather turns IFR.

Also it will look at runway material, but I can't really think of any airport with combination grass/hard surface runways in different directions.
 
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