Meigs Field was destroyed!!!

[Deputy]

He can be slapped with perjury. He signed the agreement to keep it open till '26. It is still in the making, (apparently) and according to the legal system, he will be in a world of hurt if its signed. There are several plans out there.

One more word - Recall.

[merril_c_meigs]

Trust me, I have myself been very careful to exspress that it was my opinion that "the flightsim comunity was out raged" as a would not presume to speak directly fo anyone here.

[ozzy72]

Aye Merril that is crystal. I have sent an email to the mayors office, and also one to friends of Meigs. This is an entirely personal thing, and I'm not recommending we just do this. I wanted to do it and made a concious decision, some may disagree with me. If you are going to send something, please keep it relevant, abuse isn't going to do anything other than excite the mayor even more into thinking we're ignorant nobodies.
I just hope that if we all make an effort then the mayor will rescind his decision, unlikely, but many politicians are swayed by public opinion, and the issue of popularity....

Ozzy

[pete]

Does that make things a bit clearer?

Yeah it does! Though 'Merril' I wasn't addressing you.

I just think we should try to do the little we can by focussing the pissed off folk here in a constructive way & adding to the clamour in a way that may do some good....

Your ideas seem to be right on! Thanks!

p.s. I think the 'save meigs' site was the one ran by the guy that used to hang round here years back. He used to post messages about Meigs & asking for support.

[merril_c_meigs]

Ahhh. i see! No problem .
 And yes, focus is what we definitly need at this point.

 My thanks to you ozzy, every letter counts, I'd like to think anyway, and your both right on the money.

 night all.

[robbo1]

Erm... this supposed agreement with the Friends of Meigs aside, the City of Chicago did just break the law.  Any field that is to be closed must remain useable for the period of one year.  It's basic aircraft safety, it's still on all of the charts as a useable field.  Someone's a@@ CAN fry for this, the question is, will they?

[pete]

[quote]Erm... this supposed agreement with the Friends of Meigs aside, the City of Chicago did just break the law.

[katana_1000]

[ozzy72]

I've just seen this on the news page http://www.aero-news.net/news/sport.cfm ... ockID=8853 and the Chicago papers are saying some v.interesting things.
Pete, the news service is a fantastic thing!
Katana, love the cartoon.
I wonder which scenery designer will get the XXX markings for Meigs out first?

Ozzy

[BFMF]

I doubt it will take too long

[pete]

I wonder which scenery designer will get the XXX markings for Meigs out first?

I won't be installing it. Meigs is too sentimental for me & I sometimes take the C152 up for a Meigs circuit just to remind me of the days years back when I used to do this using the keyboard & watching in pre-windows - black & white screen  :D

The real Meigs may have been chopped up but the Meigs on my FS2002 is staying

However ..... I'll probably accept it & move on by the time 2004 is released.

[chauvan]

It's kind of sad for me especially.  I'm also from Chicago (City proper, btw) and I've been away for some time since I joined the AF.  

My first flight sim experience was with the original program on a Commodore 64 when I was a kid.  I used to fly through downtown and attempt to find my house.  Pipe dream of course since everything was green outside of the downtown... but hey I had to dream...

The only shining moment was I visited last year with my son and went to the Sears Tower observatory and he got to see the airport with the planes taking off.  He's 4, so he wont remember it, but at least somewhere in his subconscious he might... that and daddy still flies from there on the computer.

[fisharno]

HEADLINE....
CHICAGO MAYOR SCREWS UP, ROYAL!

That's what it should read. Look at what's on the AOPA Homepage:  http://www.aopa.org/

[merril_c_meigs]

Like i said pete, it's hard to explain to outsiders, but your not given the choice of who to vote for in this city. The Daley demecratic machine makes sure of that. He handles politics the same way he handled the field. If you can't beat it, destroy it in the middle of the night.
Ussually, what opponent is left afterwards is so bad, he or she is laughable. Hence the 80% voting for Daley in the last election, and the remaining percentages devided up among the remaining handful of jokers we were given to choose from last time. it's literaly the system that we've had here for decades. The daleys hand down the mayorship like a father handing down a watch to his son. the time to stop it was years before I was born. Generations ago.

[katana_1000]

well,i loved meigs.anyway,any guesses on the new default MSFS airport