September 21, 20232 yr Like many a flight simmer (past a certain age), some of my first memories of “flight” were sitting on the virtual runway at Meigs Field facing north looking at the polygons representing the mighty Chicago skyline. After a good mid-life crisis…I mean, mid-life career change, I am fortunate to I find myself living out childhood dreams of flying people in and out of Chicago’s busy airspace. This week I found myself with one day off between trips that didn’t leave me enough time to commute back home to my family, so I took opportunity to tour my new “home away from home”, including the former sight of Meigs Field. Here are a few shots I took compared to a screenshot I found of Meigs in MSFS (the screenshot is not mine) Hard to believe that it has been gone for over 20 years now. Sadly the “park” that now occupies the peninsula is largely unused. In the hour plus that I spent there, I ran across 3 cyclists and one park worker looking for trash to pick up. Chris
September 21, 20232 yr Moderator I'm truly surprised that they haven't torn down the terminal/FBO and the tower! Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
September 21, 20232 yr 3 hours ago, n4gix said: I'm truly surprised that they haven't torn down the terminal/FBO and the tower! All the more reason to re-open it. Rhett 7800X3D ♣ 96 GB G.Skill Flare ♣ Gigabyte 4090 ♣ Crucial P5 Plus 2TB
September 21, 20232 yr It was a very sad and authoritative decision when it was made time ago by the city major. Cheers, Ed MSFS2020 Steam // Rig: Corsair Graphite 760T Full Tower - ASUS MBoard Maximus XII Hero Z490 - CPU Intel i9-10900K - 64GB RAM - MSI RTX2080 Super 8GB - [1xNVMe M.2 1TB + 1xNVMe M.2 2TB (Samsung)] + [1xSSD 1TB + 1xSSD 2TB (Crucial)] + [1xSSD 1TB (Samsung)] + 1 HDD Seagate 2TB + 1 HDD Seagate External 4TB - Monitor LG 29UC97C UWHD Curved - PSU Corsair RM1000x // Thrustmaster FCS & MS XBOX Controllers
September 21, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, edpatino said: It was a very sad and authoritative decision when it was made time ago by the city major. This is unfortunately typical Irish behaviour. We have a history of knocking down beautiful architecture, and replacing it with sterile looking buildings, or nothing at all. Jude BradleyBeech Baron: Uh, Tower, verify you want me to taxi in front of the 747?ATC: Yeah, it's OK. He's not hungry. X-Plane 12 and MSFS2020 🙂 System specs: Windows 11 Pro 64-bit, Ubuntu Linux 20.04 i7-13700KF Gigabyte Z790 RTX-4060-Ti , 32GB RAM 1X 2TB M2 for X-Plane 12, 1x256GB SSD for OS. 1TB drive MSFS2020
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