Where's Meigs field gone?

[Scatterbrain Kid]

You know, the one at Chicago, it was one of my favourite fields in FS2004 but it ain't there in FSX, all it is now is a bit of sagebrush-covered prairie; I tried landing on it for old times sake but my wheel snagged on a bit of high chapparal stuff and crashed

[a1]

If I remember correctly Meigs Field closed down in real life a while ago. I am not sure about Sim though.

[Vuikag]

as real as it gets  

[BFMF]

We have mayor daley to thank for that

[jime59]

This will answer you question regarding Meigs.

http://www.metafilter.com/24769/Meigs-Field-Xed-Out.

[Daube]

I wonder if there would be any ay to export the default FS2004 scenery to FSX...

[ManuelL]

If I remember correctly there is a freeware addon for Meigs field in FSX.

[Opa]

Not sure about the library here, but using Meigs as the search criteria at Avsim, I see three related files under FSX scenery.

Meigs closed in 2003 if memory serves - a sad time indeed.

Good hunting!

[machineman9]

Yeh there is a Meigs Field download for FSX.

Though, I remember crashing every time I entered the airspace for some reason... Like invisible walls. And I crashed every time I selected it as my start location.


But it exists.

[Brett_Henderson]

It was probably offered up and traded away for a senate seat

[Daube]

The problem of the Meigs scenery for FSX is that the author forgot to "clean the place" before adding his buildings, and unfortunately in FSX there is a lot of autogen there, which appears on top of the tarmac...

Maaan how much I'd like to takeoff from Meigs in a Camel in FSX, turn left then try to pass between those antennas then turn right to line up with the runway again... good times...  :-[

[pete]

It's available to add to FSX but as Daub says - the autogen is probably on top of it ...

http://www.simviation.com/simviation/st ... =63&page=7

[Opa]

[quote]The problem of the Meigs scenery for FSX is that the author forgot to "clean the place" before adding his buildings, and unfortunately in FSX there is a lot of autogen there, which appears on top of the tarmac...

Maaan how much I'd like to takeoff from Meigs in a Camel in FSX, turn left then try to pass between those antennas then turn right to line up with the runway again... good times...

[BFMF]

[quote]It was probably offered up and traded away for a senate seat

[Daube]

[quote][quote]The problem of the Meigs scenery for FSX is that the author forgot to "clean the place" before adding his buildings, and unfortunately in FSX there is a lot of autogen there, which appears on top of the tarmac...

Maaan how much I'd like to takeoff from Meigs in a Camel in FSX, turn left then try to pass between those antennas then turn right to line up with the runway again... good times...