[Free/Professional] Merril C. Meigs Field (KCGX) - Meigs is back! [Reference]

Confirmed that the runway numbers are swapped, but everything else is beautiful. Really well done!! Feels sooo familiar sitting on the runway and seeing those twin spires in the Chicago skyline!

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In early alpha all the boats were ortho-modelled. I’ve noticed they’re mostly gone now…

Thanks for this! I knew it wouldn’t take long. Learned to fly here with FS4 and an old keyboard with the F keys down the left hand side, no mouse yet! Now an airline captain…

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Very nice, thanks for the work!

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Thans it bribgs me back to 1982

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Is that the location of where all add-ons should go?

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Noted the swapping rwys issue. I have identified the problem within the files and will upload a patch soon in the upcoming days. Thanks for the input.

Any other issue or improvement any of you have spotted?

Glad you like it and enjoying it!

Yes, the standard location for 3rd party addons

I thought about remaking the whole bay with real 3D boats and docks. I will give it a try but I´m afraid it may increase the polycount considerably, thus affecting performance. I will make some tests and maybe include it in the next version if I can keep FPS high

I found another issue…the runway thresholds are placed wrong.
The outer two you placed directly at the runway, the middle two you placed at the apron.
In reality they were all placed in the middle.
Here are some original photos where they can be seen:
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/IL/Airfields_IL_Chicago_C.htm

And the windsock doesnt belong were it is now. At this place it would block the view to the VASI.
I think there was one placed near the tower, but couldnt find a good picture of it so far.

PS: i found one picture of it…its on the corner of the fire department besides the tower:
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/IL/Airfields_IL_Chicago_C_htm_79c0055.jpg

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Many thanks, noted too and thanks for the picture references (they are hard to find). Noted for next update too

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We needed this :slight_smile:
Thanks a lot for your effort!

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"Here are some original photos where they can be seen:
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/IL/Airfields_IL_Chicago_C.htm "

Oh my, those are some amazing photos! Wow! It turns out that there was a runway expansion growing it to 3170’ from 2800’.

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Great tks. U bring 27years old memory back to me . FSX3.0 was my start of fs. A funny part is : before i got to know the runway lenth,i tried many times to land 747 and 767 by default fsx planes. However today as an old hand,that stupid things will never happen anymore. tks again !

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Not amazing, but boats were there… Probably an unnecessary performance hit.

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Oh man a long time ago… wow. Thx for the memories indeed.:dash::flight_departure:

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Many Thanks for this Airport.
Here you can find another High-Res picture if you need details: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Meigs_field_USGS_2002.jpg

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Many thanks for all the nice comments and the reference pictures! I’ll update textures in general to be more historically accurate for next version!

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Oh wow! I wish I could down load Meigs_ Field , however I have the digital version of the flight sim 2020, and it doesn’t allow free add on. I couldn’t get the 10 disk download of this flight sim in the States.

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Every Version allows free addons.
Thank you for Meigs Field its amazing :slight_smile:
But why are the 3 black squares in the middle of the runnway?

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yes it does. Put the files in your community folder.

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