I was looking forward to flying into this airport for the first time as I lived in the area for a number of years.  No issues coming in - I landed and taxied to parking OK.

The next day, I attempted (for over an hour) to initiate a flight (TBM) out of Midway - after 3 attempts, I gave up:

• Began taxiing to my assigned runway when suddenly I had no braking.  I tried everything to get the aircraft to stop (even reverse thrust) - there was no control and the aircraft taxied into a hangar and was destroyed. Rebooted sim.
• No issues with braking now - taxied to assigned runway and went into takeoff roll.  Halfway down 31C I hit a giant "hill" and the aircraft was thrown into the sky - no way to control at that speed and the aircraft plowed back into the runway and was destroyed.  Restarted flight.
• Thinking that 31C was apparently defective (overdone for slopes) I reset for takeoff from 4R (which I had landed on previously). As I taxied into takeoff position (taxiway Y1) there was suddenly a big bang.  I was informed that the landing gear had been destroyed. (large pothole?)

The first was probably a sim glitch and didn't happen again with the aircraft, but the others (oversize mounds in  runways and hidden walls/craters in taxiways make this airport almost unusable).  Has anyone else experienced this with this airport or have I been lucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time twice?  I thought someone mentioned in a post awhile back that there was a nice freeware version of this airport?  Did they resolve the problems with the default?

You can find the freeware version over at flightsim.to, worth giving it a try.  I don’t recall hearing of these sorts of issues in the thread here on that freeware effort.

Thanks - not having this airport as a usable location would be a bummer!

Hey Randall,  Fellow CMH er .  I've flown in and out of the above referenced freeware and haven't had an issue with any of the taxiways or runways.

Will try another flight this evening and report back.

 

-Brian

Thanks, Brian - I would especially be interested in the 2 areas the default failed on me:

• Takeoff on 31C
• Taxiing through taxiway Y1 to enter the threshold of 4R

I have flown in and out of Midway twice without issues but did not log which runways.  Been since before the first of this year.  I am pretty sure I landed on 13L, but do not recall the departure rwy the next day.

 

Edited January 28, 20215 yr by fppilot