boeing247 wrote on Oct 4^th, 2011 at 4:57am:

701151 wrote on Oct 4th, 2011 at 12:38am: Active runway is based off wind directions, not a normally used runway. If FSX weather sets wind at a heading of 360, then you'll be using runway 180. See, wind conditions at LAX are usually in favor of runways 25 or 24, although they're in the wrong direction for many things, except Asia and hawaii. However, if you set FSX weather to 250 degrees, it'll put you on runway 7 or 6 because thats favorable to the conditions, although its not what's commonly used. another company makes they're stuff right, so trust them. Though all LAX flights leave depart over the ocean. I always fly out of there, and every flight has departed west over the ocean, regardless of the destination.

Although that is correct, that is because 95% of the time, winds are favorable to use 25L, 25R, 24L, or 24R. I've taken off from 7L once, during the Santa Ana winds season.