Meigs Field
Meigs Field (KCGX) is not present in FSX.
Meigs Field (KCGX) 
was an airport located on a man-made island just outside Chicago city centre and with an excellent view to the city skyline. It was closed in 2003 but is present in the latest simulator.
Until the 2004 version Meigs was the standard departure airport of all? Flight Simulator versions.
The runway is 3900 ft, however, the rwy 18 landing distance is only 3350 ft. Only traffic patterns over the lake are allowed.
The airport has the GPS Rwy 36 and VOR/DME-A approaches (charts). Try the last approach: Track VOR/DME 113.9 inbound on 298°. Start descending from 2000 ft at DME 20.0 nm. At DME 17.4 nm make a final visual approach to rwy 18 or rwy 36.
Comments:
Meigs...she will always be my favorite airport in FS! I wrote many an editorial to the Chicago area newspapers asking the people to save the airport, and why...sadly, none of it mattered once Mayor Daily destroyed the modern marvel!It's a shame that this airport has been destroyed. I had been my test site regarding the MS flight models. You may try to land the default B747 (it works fine).
I know...I used to love it in Midtown Madness! (Chicago edition). It was not destroyed--it was uninstalled (the program).
Wait, so what does it look like in FSX?
Like it does today?
Nope. FSX is up to date. Meigs is gone. The island is still there, but it's a barren wasteland.
I cannot believe that Daley destroyed Meigs behind everyone's back! What is this, a dictatorship?
Meigs was (and still is) my favorite airport. 9/11 changed the country; this is just one reminder.
Hopefully, someone will add Meigs back to FSX so that it can at least live on in Cyberland!
Lets ALL PUT OUR HANDS TOGEATHER AND HOPE THAT SOMEONE DOSE VERY SOON THOSE, I NERLY CRYIED WHEN I HERD ABOUT MEIGS FEILD IN 2003 WAS GOING TO BE CLOSED :'(
I HAD NO COMPLANTES ABOUT THE AIRPORT. THERE IS NO WAY THEY COULD OF SAVED THAT AIRPORT UNLESS 'BILL GATES'
HELPED GIVING THEN 5 MILLION DOLLERS TO SAVE IT. :'(
dude, it's an airport, who cares? steel, concrete, and asphalt cannot feel
when i started fs i loved taking of from meigs i didnt know about it closing
It's very sad that this great airport was knocked down and the reasons for this were ridiculous. Why not closing Midway since there you've got the planes which can really harm a Sears tower...
The boat people next to the the airport wanted it closed.
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no need to get it distroyed was a good airport i enjoyed landing there and doing air races in fs2002 online no offance but that mayor needs a kik up the arse ffs !!! :(
I also loved that airport!!. Come on! Closing the airport because of risk of a terrorist attack?!?! Duh! You have O'hare nearby, which happens to be one of the buisiest airports in the US, but no, let's close the cessna airport!!
To get this airpot for fsx go to www.simviation.com/fsxscenery6.htm
Best airport.
Meigs Field, May she REST IN PEACE. Loved by all pilots, She was my first flight too in the simulator world, and was what mostly inspired me to become a pilot. Meigs will be Missed. :-(
I was lucky enough to fly a real C172 out of Meigs in 1996. The wind shear in the lee of the downtown skyscrapers was really noticeable. An unforgettable experience. Very sad the airport is no longer. London City Airport is similar for anyone who misses this kind of thing.
To get this airport for fsx now go to www.simviation.com/fsxscenery7.htm
not fair what daily did but i still love meigs!!! :)and :D
Man, What the hell was he thinking? That a c172 is going to knock down a skyscraper! its the jets ya have to worry about
It really sucks what happened to meigs. :(
I wish it was still in fsx.
I also wish this was still in FSX. The Meigs Field scenery for FSX on FlightSim is bugged. You aircraft cashes if you get anywhere near it or start out at it.
they have the ability to change the simulator date, why didn't they leave it in the years 2003 and before? After 2003, they could show it barren, as it is now. This would have left it's history "intact", but I suspect it took up too much space, which could be used for other things since it's removal.
Well I live in Chicago, and travel Lake Shore Drive very frequently, I DID cry. On the night that that mobster shut it down everyone was like what are all of those construction lights doing at Meigs, The next morning the Sun Times printed an Aerial of that cocksuckers carved X's in the runway. I knew from that point that Meigs was history. No he had plans for that land A LONG TIME AGO, 9/11 was just a scapegoat to expedite his plans for a damn park. Chicago politics suck as do all politics. Were not even going to get on the fact that he erected these dumb paremeter gates around Midway where you cant even see the airfield anymore except for select dangerous and private spots. Even there airport police hawk you. My love for my city has really died because of Mayor freaking Daley.
in FSX justlike they said its barron, i have seen some freeware addons for it thoue. and if you fly to the island you can see airport buildings and i think the towers there to
Daley also said he closed it because the lease was getting to expensive. How much can a 3900 slab of concrete cost? Look at the highways, Daley you gonna close all of the highways too and make them parks?!? On top of it all the Chicago city was fined--33,000-- for closing an ILS airport without warning to FAA. Yes you're tax money was used to close Meigs. Yup politics are screwed.
not in fsx
You take that to the white house person who talked before the person who just talked
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next thing youll no that the usa gaverment will shut down all of the airports in the usa. if that happens flying will be damned but some day the usa citizens will team up on goverment. We will team up with everyone to go 2 Area 51 the secret will declared around the world if aliens do exist. The army will go balistick and go hunting for gearge w bush kill him for what he has done to the usa and lets hope that Obama will make everything back to normal and tell the world whats in area 51 it will be a terrist place. The world is already getting upside down. :(
how do you Track DMEs in FSX i cant find the AM radio can someone help
or NDBs