...Meigs has been a part of FS for so long now as the default strip and I did all my early FS flying training from there and will be sure to miss it now that it is closed.........

   I wonder how they will deal with it in the new FSX......Hope they treat it with respect and not just leave it as a blot on the land scape.......Maybe a memorial plaque that can be read from 500ft would be nice..........

  I wonder too which airfield will be the new "default"....some thing about the size of Meig's Field probably. Not one of the big ones for sure. Bound to be in the US for obvious reasons I think...any suggestions/guesses?..........commoner.

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............LOL...yes ..probably this old man.. ..should maybe have said MY default home base...but the questions remain...what about Meigs and which will be the FSX "home" field......

Naaa, its gonna be KIAH-Bush Intercontinental Houston

Or KSFO, KLAX.  Doubt KSEA, but probably a big airport

why not whats closest to meigs... O'Hare

(well technically it's midway, but bleh to midway!)

Ramos

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Meigs was the default airport in all versions of FS until Mayor Daley set his vandals on it in March 2003. http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2003/03-1-157x.html
I assume that Seattle was chosen for FS9 as Meigs no longer exists & M$ is based in Seattle.

Not that it makes much difference to me as changing the default airport is one of the first things I do after installing any version of FS.

thats a good thought  never thought of seattle like that  i only use it when i wana test a plane real quick and i dont pay attention to the scenery (unless i'm about to crash into it  )

Just curious...how can you change the default airport?

I'm sure that the default airport will remain Seatac, but BG's home airport is actually Bremerton Municipal. It's a good place to make default if you are bent on certification in Flt Simming.

I heard that they are going rebuild meigs along with a city park, because it was an illegal closure, and GA traffic to midway went through the roof

...I liked Meigs in my early sim days because it was to me the perfect place to practice my flying skills .......for one thing it was easy to find being on the coast near a big city. You could always look around and see it there when you were all but lost.......... and also being aligned North South made it simple to line up for landing practice..........the other large airports dotted around gave ample scope to practice more skills such as ILS approaches etc.........

Trying to get some of the bigger crates off there was fun too..........my incredible FS flying ability (cough cough) owes a lot to that little field and I'd be sorry to see it go..........commoner

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It doesn't have to be a Cessna or even at an airport. Set the flight up exactly as you wish, then save it under an appropriate name & check the "Make this the default flight" box. You can save it from any view (like Spot or Virtual Cockpit View) you wish. For example; if I want to practice landing my favourite Tiger Moth at my local airport of Shoreham I save the flight when I'm on the approach & make it the default flight. I also use this method when testing/setting up new aircraft, panels & scenery as it makes it so much easier & more convenient.

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They were given a brief window to take off using the taxiway one day.

Microsoft (not M$! word from one guy's mouth is they absolutely hate being called M$) is definately sympathetic to Meigs, that is why it was left in FS2004. I think they will go the same way with FSX. KSEA will be the default start, but Meigs will still exist in-game, and you will be able to select it.

I think when you install FSX you should be able to select everything like default start airport, mabye load real world weather on startup, system settings. Make life alot easier 'cause when i fire up FS X  for the first time i dont want to take 20+ mns to adjust settings, I want to just hit "fly now" and go!


-gottoflynow

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Except for FS2000.

I'll toss in my two bits for Santa Monica, Home of the first DC-3 test flight. 8)

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As it's reported, Chicago Mayor Daley's wife wanted to turn Meigs field into a park.  He had been looking for a reason (excuse) to close down Meigs, but the FAA would have none of it.  When 9/11 happened, he claimed terrorists could take off from Meigs and crash into the Sears Tower, but that didn't fly, pun intended.

Previously, Daley and Illinois Governor Ryan had a joint agreement with the FAA to not get rid of Meigs.  When Ryan lost his re-election bid (which marked a milestone for the beginning of his corruption trial) Daley, decided on the basis of a technicality their agreement with the federal government was no longer valid since Ryan was no longer governor.

And to impose his will to close down the airport, Daley hired some non-union workers to come in in the middle of the night and carve huge X's into the runway, rendering it unusable.  It was noted about the union status of the workers added to the intriege due to Chicago being a strong union-friendly town.  Also, Daley didn't even notify the FAA when he did it.  The FAA learned about what was done AFTER the fact, just as the owners of several planes rendered stranded at Meigs as well.

The general concensus with Chicago citizens was "Yea, Daley was wrong, but who cares?"  Chicago citizens are used to government corruption and intriegue.  Since the Meigs incident, there have been many more scandals and incident of government corruption.  It's just life in the "City with Broad Shoulders"

Sad.   

.....Oh dear...I feel quite ill from seeing such vandalism....must get a couple of tabs and lie down..............dcunning please give a bit of warning if you must post such awful pics..........commoner

I personally have my default airport set to whereever I live...when I was in Sudan it was Khartoum International...and now in Italy....it's LAGO's Rome....along with the city's scenery highly realistic.... 8) 8)

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That's the "obscene" part - as if the "X-rating" wasn't enough!

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You never heard of the "Daley Machine"?

Daley knows people who can get things done.  You go after Daley and you are given a set of cement boots, and you go swimming in lake Michigan.   

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A murdered airport is more like it... 

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That photo was probably taken soon after the runway was vandalised. Those will be the 16 stranded aircraft ex-pat mentioned earlier in the thread.

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I sense sarcasim


[edit] nevermind i see you are from Des Moines also

*** In the place of Meigs field that is.... anyone interested in tackling that as an ad on? hahaha

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Okay...who wants to take up the position of Kamikaze?

i hope they make a big statue of that guy in chicago and one day i come back as a pigeon.

I would stay on a steady diet of spicey beef and habinero salsa if you get my drift

Have at it:

Sorry, I'm no Chicagoian. What's the beef with Daley?

I don't listen to news anyways. The news stations [all of them] are just becoming too close-minded. Nowadays, all they want to talk about is bad news.

Anyways, I hate the guy for what he did with Meigs. I mean, shutting down a well-known airport for no reason? Come on.

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no he closed the airport for a very good reason... but he's still an idiot.

he closed it because he didn't want terrorists try and throw a cessna at the sears tower. let me tell you, i've been up top at  sears tower, and the landing planes for O'Hare 9L, throw them a couple degrees off and they're in downtown.

it's not so much that, but he had to do it on my birthday...

Ramos

The new park is called Meigs Park, but so what?  Whoop do do!


The weak excuse about slinging Cessnas at Sears Tower is exactly that, weak.  Anyone ho's been to the lakefront in the summer have been treated to a number of light aircraft towing banners.  Any one of those light aircraft can veer toward any of the skycrapers, or even down into Soldier Field during a Bears game and nobody would be able to do a thing about it.

...surely, I bet just about everyone has buzzed the playing field in Soldier Field at least once.  Or taken a low level river flight up the Chicago river...

Here's what I've heard:

The demolition was done illegally, literally under cover of darkness; the FAA was not even alerted so that a NOTAM could be issued, and he'd been planning this move, and trying to get support for it ,long  before 2001.


To my eyes, it looks like a classic land grab, combined with a play for the Chicken Little voter bloc.
Unless they build a plane-proof dome over the whole thing, the city will never be any safer from aerial attack of any kind than it was when the airport was active, with locals in the air helping keep an eye out for anything odd.
The weak points (as proven on 9/11) were, and are still, the large airports serving the major carriers and large aircraft, not little Meigs Field, which must've been like a crown jewel for Chicago. It's a crime, and a shame.


http://64.143.36.15/html/history/Meigs_History.html#recent

Evoking "National Security" in these strange times seems to excuse just about anything....

If someone is going to ram a plane in to a building I'd rather it be a Cessna than a Boeing...