Originally Posted by
mr ripley
DFW the other day was giving (if I remember correctly):
36L 35C 35R 31R
We planned on 35C and got 31R and the subsequent taxi was about the distance of the M4 spur road junction to T4.
Nevertheless flexibility was briefed and the runway change/crosscheck and brief took no more than a minute.
Mr. Ripley;
You beat me to it <G>. There are places with a lot more than one runway for landing and to get the most through put in the system you have to be flexible to go to any of the runways. Being that I am old <G>, I remember before FMS was widespread and this wasn't an issue. So I look at this as not so much as an ATC issue as one of the manufacturers once again not taking into account how the system actually works and plan for the computer human interface to work that way...
regards
Scott