While I understand that the Asobo AI can be a bit wonky at times, there are those of us who use other AI products like FSLTL and Runway 5/23 is the only runway the AI ever uses at FSDT's rendition of KCLT.
I'm not entirely sure how FSLTL affects of possibly changes the runway assignment but, there are two possible options:
- If FSLTL CAN affect the runway assignment, using a different strategy of the default AI that might eventually overcome some issues with it, then ( assuming it can do that ), it should be able to recognize there are other runways available there.
- If FSLTL CAN'T affect the runway assignment, then the argument "the Asobo AI can be a bit wonky at times, there are those of us who use other AI products like FSLTL" is no longer valid, if both falls back and depends by issues with the default AI.
Many developers offer the option to disable runways in their configuration tools so I dont see why this cant be an option for KCLT.
Are you sure many developers offer such options and configurators, for MSFS ?
While it was a common practice with FSX/P3D, it's not as common or practical in MSFS, mostly because of the existence of the Marketplace, both because such external configurators are not allowed there, and even if the developers made them available separately, they couldn't affect a Marketplace installation anyway, because the airport .BGL there would be encrypted, so it couldn't be modified, and I doubt a developer would offer a "better" version on its own site, if he selling the same airport on the Marketplace. But maybe I missed something, and there are plenty of this out there...
If its realism you are after, Runway 5/23 has effectively been closed permenantly and is open only for taxiing. Below are several IRL NOTAMS to this affect.
If i understood correctly, the first one only covers portions of the runway, and the others all expire in a few days, but that's besides the point.
Users surely pay way more attention to charts than Notams, and if you check the current charts, nothing there ever suggests 5/23 has been closed. The Approaches are all there, the runways are all there listed with their stopping distances, lights, etc. the ILS is still there.
So yes, we might well deprecated 05/23 to be a taxiway, but then most users will look at the charts, and complain the scenery is completely wrong, because it misses a whole runway that is still listed as an available runway, with all its procedures, on all chart products everybody uses.