Meigs field?

[Guest Nathan McGuire]

What I was thinking is, we could have the scenery team bring meigs field into fsx (it's not in the default scenery due to being notoriously destroyed in 2003) and have a GA fly in there.

[Tom Gauvin]

We could call it Screw Mayor Daley Field. :mrgreen: If the designator wasn't already in use we could use KSMD.

[Guest Nathan McGuire]

KFMD for the more vulgar term....

[Jeremy Valentine]

KFMD for the more vulgar term....

 

+1

[Devon Hathaway]

KFMD for the more vulgar term....

And that identifier is currently available :)

[Cody Outten]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Guest Jorge Salguero]

KFMD for the more vulgar term....

And that identifier is currently available :)

 

We departed KFMD yesterday without addons.

[Cody Outten]

 

We departed KFMD yesterday without addons.

 

According to airnav, that airport doesn't exist so if it is in FSX, it shouldn't be.

[Guest Jorge Salguero]

 

We departed KFMD yesterday without addons.

 

According to airnav, that airport doesn't exist so if it is in FSX, it shouldn't be.

[Guest Lucas Kaelin]

FSX released Oct 2006. Meigs Field destroyed 2003.

[Guest Nathan McGuire]

FSX released Oct 2006. Meigs Field destroyed 2003.

Yes and if you actually read my first post I said maybe the scenery team could "bring it back"

[Cody Outten]

FSX released Oct 2006. Meigs Field destroyed 2003.

Yes and if you actually read my first post I said maybe the scenery team could "bring it back"

No we'll have a Frankenstein airport :D

 

 

(Yes, I know that was a corny joke)

[Guest Max Enis]

FSX released Oct 2006. Meigs Field destroyed 2003.

Yes and if you actually read my first post I said maybe the scenery team could "bring it back"

 

And reference the Scenery to what exactly?

[Guest Nathan McGuire]

FSX released Oct 2006. Meigs Field destroyed 2003.

Yes and if you actually read my first post I said maybe the scenery team could "bring it back"

 

And reference the Scenery to what exactly?

 

What do you mean?

[Cody Outten]

 

And reference the Scenery to what exactly?

 

Aerial Photos should be able to help.

[Dan Perrone]

Aerial photos of...what?

[Guest Max Enis]

FSX released Oct 2006. Meigs Field destroyed 2003.

Yes and if you actually read my first post I said maybe the scenery team could "bring it back"

 

To be honest its just really not realistic for our community or our scenery guys. You need charts, frequencies, elevation info, exact location coordinates, etc. If you notice, almost none of the scenery our guys design is from scratch. Almost all of them say "ENHANCEMENTS" because they just take what FSX defaults it, and makes modifications for airport updates and realism.

 

That is basically saying let's have an event at Idlewild (KIDL) or Kai Tak.

 

 

And reference the Scenery to what exactly?

 

Aerial Photos should be able to help.

 

What about world scenery enhancement such as REX, GEX, UTX, and/or FTX Global. Meigs Field I believe was on water outside of Chicago. I'm no scenery expert but I believe the scenery would have to overwrite all of the textures that they high-end aftermarket enhancements make.

[Guest Nathan McGuire]

Maybe referencing Northerly Island Park (what Meigs became after it was destroyed) would help? I don't know I'm not good with scenery and texture stuff

[Tom Gauvin]

Bottom line: It's amusing to think about and joke about, but IMHO not the best use of the BVA Scenery Teams time.

 

To be honest its just really not realistic for our community or our scenery guys. You need charts, frequencies, elevation info, exact location coordinates, etc. If you notice, almost none of the scenery our guys design is from scratch. Almost all of them say "ENHANCEMENTS" because they just take what FSX defaults it, and makes modifications for airport updates and realism.

And reference the Scenery to what exactly?

 

As for being too unrealistic or too complex for the BVA scenery team, I think they have more than the skills needed to do it. The landmass that was Meigs is still there so that's not an issue. Charts, Freq, Coordinates, Elevation data, etc. are all easy to obtain or create.

 

And reference the Scenery to what exactly?

 

There are ample photos at both ground level and aerial of the original field, and Sat images of the current landmass. No issue there at all.

 

As an example, it was an amature attempt on my part, but I was able to take a real plot of land near where I live that had a small abandon grass runway on it and using some airport creation software and a pointers from some scenery people here I created my own private air park complete with an extended paved runway, houses and a mansion, private roads linking to the existing depicted roads, private hanger, taxiways, singage, VOR, etc. It even shows up on the default FSX GPS and map. So, if an amature hack like myself could do that, recreating Meigs is a perfectly do-able for the skilled people on our scenery team.

 

That said, I return to my opening comment in this post "Bottom line: It's amusing to think about and joke about, but not IMHO not the best use of the BVA Scenery Teams time."

 

I'd rather see the scenery team devote their generously donated skills, talents, and time to keeping the current real world active airfields up to date.

 

But, KFMD F#%& Mayor Daley field does have a nice ring to it... :mrgreen: