Is anyone else excited for EastMidlands Airport development?

[LDR InFlight 52]

Hi all,

My local airport is East Midlands Airport in the UK, living under the approach path for runway 27. 
I’ve been following the development updates on twitter by Pyreegue, who is working on this airport and the teaser preview screenshots look to be absolutely fantastic. The level of detail is outstanding. I think this is going to be their best work yet on already next level airports released so far, eg Belfast and Edinburgh. 

 

I can’t wait for release day. (Hopefully soon)  This looks to be awesome. Is anyone else looking forward to this airport coming to MSFS…?

Edited May 17, 2023 by LDR InFlight

[Mace 1,926]

Yes, count me in.  Cargo flights to the max.   Also, it's a gateway to the Sherwood Forest.  ➡️

[AJZip 251]

Yup.  Me too!

[Ron Attwood 3,465]

No stirring of the loins here I'm afraid, 😢

[jarmstro 2,402]

Looking forward to it. There are  not many UK airports without a decent payware offering left now. EGSH is one I'd like. And maybe Bournemouth? Can't think of any others. The Gatwick freeware is so good I doubt any developer would bother..

Edited May 18, 2023 by jarmstro

[Ray Proudfoot 8,954]

East Midlands is perhaps most famous for the 1989 Kegworth crash when a British Midland B737-400 failed to stay airborne long enough for an emergency landing. It crashed into the embankment of the M1 motorway on 8 January 1989, just under 3 weeks after Lockerbie.

47 of the 126 souls on board perished. Details here…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kegworth_air_disaster

[St Mawgan 1,372]

I never fly north of Watford. 

[Car147 2,278]

Also looking forward to it's release.. Pyreegue have become one of the top dev's for Airport addons imo.

[cianpars 1,165]

Looking forward to this one, but whilst you are waiting there is an acceptable freeware offering over at flightsim.to by flyboyrez (and I believe aviationteh).

[LDR InFlight 52]

I had the privilege of seeing the Antonov AN-225 Mriya land at the airport in 2014 too. 

[Donka 645]

Yup, anything by Pyreegue is a definite in my book - fantastic developer. The amount of detail added that will probably be lost on most people is nuts. The weathering on the control tower windows for example. Looking forward to this for sure.

[Ricardo41 5,949]

Nope.

[jarmstro 2,402]

4 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

East Midlands is perhaps most famous for the 1989 Kegworth crash when a British Midland B737-400 failed to stay airborne long enough for an emergency landing. It crashed into the embankment of the M1 motorway on 8 January 1989, just under 3 weeks after Lockerbie.

47 of the 126 souls on board perished. Details here…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kegworth_air_disaster

And I dare say that I will be unconsciously recreating this accident, probably many times, when the airport releases! 😂

[AJZip 251]

7 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

East Midlands is perhaps most famous for the 1989 Kegworth crash when a British Midland B737-400 failed to stay airborne long enough for an emergency landing. It crashed into the embankment of the M1 motorway on 8 January 1989, just under 3 weeks after Lockerbie.

47 of the 126 souls on board perished. Details here…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kegworth_air_disaster

On many levels, that was a dreadful event.  I've landed in a Cessna (IRL) from that same direction and you realise that just a few feet higher and it would have still landed short of the runway threshold but not gone into the motorway embankment.  Then again, with the wrong engine shut down, it could have failed at any time with, potentially, all lives lost. 

Edited May 18, 2023 by AJZip

[tpete61 227]

Nope