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Garmin Pilot recommends closed runway as "Best RWY"

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Over the last few days, Runway 17R/35L at Ellington Airport (KEFD) has been closed. 

I was surprised to see that when looking at the airport details, the suggested runway to use for the wind conditions was 17R, which is currently CLOSED! 
Yet runway 17L next to is open (although shorter).

The graphical diagram of the airport does correctly show the runway in RED, indicating that it is closed.

Why would there be such an important safety-related inconsistency?

  • +1

    Hello,

    Thank you for the feedback and for letting us know about this. I see you ran into this seven months ago. Is this still something that you are having issues with? If so, we would definitely like to know. Thank you!

  • 0 in reply to Garmin-ZM

    Thank you for replying. It is no longer an issue at this particular airport, but I recommend that you test for this type of problem in your test scenarios. The specific problem that was encountered was that the main runway was clearly closed, but when planning a flight to this airport, this runway was recommended as the "best RWY" to land on.
    I tried both Foreflight and iFlyGPS and these apps did not recommend this runway. 

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