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FSX Taxi Direction

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I hope this isn't a silly question, but is there any significance to the direction in which Taxi Paths are drawn? Many airports like Chicago O'Hare have concentric rings, A and B, and aircraft on FSX seem to always use the same direction.

I am working on an up to date KORD, and it looks as if the designers have purposely skipped signage which would not be used. i.e. Why would an aircraft turn onto the middle of a runway, so why give us a sign indicating a path, even though one exists for aircraft leaving the runway.

I'm always trying to better understand FSX and it's foibles, and this is one of them.
 
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What are you basing direction on?
 
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Hi Jon,
What I am trying to assess is whether AI aircraft follow the Forward/Reverse settings of the taxi points. With KORD, would I need to draw all the inner A taxiways in a clockwise direction, and all the B Taxiways anti-clockwise. If these rules are followed, then it reduces the number of Taxisigns required. I am positioning signs directly from Google Earth Coordinates, but that doesn't tell me what they say, or if they are double sided. I hope that clarifies what I am asking.
 
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OK - thanks for the clarification. I am sorry that I don't have the answer. Hopefully someone else will
 
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The Forward/Reverse attribute of taxi points are used only by "hold-short" types and are used only for the orientation of the drawn marks.

Taxi path Forward/Reverse attributes are used only to define right/left edges for edge marks/lights.

Neither of these have any effect on the direction of travel of AI aircraft.
 
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Okay thanks, I've redrawn the B taxiway in the opposite direction, and watched AI aircraft happily go against what I hoped was the flow. Taxi line direction therefore have nothing to do with AI aircraft taxi direction. QED.
 
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Something to keep in mind, is that in real life, the outer and inner circle taxiways (Alpha and Bravo) at O'Hare are often used in either direction based on the runway configuration. At least it was the case until the recent shift to all east-west runways.

Mark
 
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