Chicago
Airports X has been developed to provide the immersion into the Chicago
area at a level never seen before. The product consists of three
airports: KORD O'Hare, KMDW Midway and KPWK Executive. All airports have
been developed using the most modern techniques. Great performance has
been coupled with visual excellence but most importantly - tens of
thousands of objects crucial for performing realistic flight operations,
like signs, marking and lighting has been precisely implemented on a
huge scale. Apart from must-have items, there are also hundreds of
optional static aircraft, all terminals, towers and some hangars have
interiors, there are custom animations, SODE jetways, advanced
materials... All airports have up-to-date layouts including elements
currently being under construction (check O'Hare). The product is
designed to seamlessly blend with Chicago City X by Drzewiecki Design
however each airport can be activated/deactivated individually for
maximum compatibility potential.
K O R D O ' H A R E I N T E R N A T I O N A L A I R P O R T
O'Hare
International Airport (IATA: ORD, ICAO: KORD, FAA LID: ORD) is an
international airport located on the far Northwest Side of Chicago,
Illinois, 14 miles (23 km) northwest of the Loop business district,
operated by the Chicago Department of Aviation and covering 7,627 acres
(3,087 ha). O'Hare began as an airfield serving a Douglas manufacturing
plant for C-54 military transports during World War II. It was named for
Edward "Butch" O'Hare, the U.S. Navy's first Medal of Honor recipient
during that war. Later, at the height of the Cold War, O'Hare served as
an active fighter base for the Air Force. As the first major airport
planned post-war, O’Hare's innovative design pioneered concepts such as
concourses, direct highway access to the terminal, jet bridges, and
underground refuelling systems. It became famous as the first World’s
Busiest Airport of the jet age, holding that distinction from 1963 to
1998; today, it is the world's sixth-busiest airport, serving 83 million
passengers in 2018. O'Hare is unusual in that it serves a major hub for
more than one of the three U.S. mainline carriers; it is United's
largest hub in both passengers and flights, while it is American's
third-largest hub. It is also a focus city for Frontier Airlines and
Spirit Airlines. While Terminals 2 and 3 remain of the original design,
the airport has been engaged in a massive modernization of the airfield,
and is beginning an expansion of passenger facilities that will remake
it as North America’s first airport built around airline alliances.
K M D W M I D W A Y I N T E R N A T I O N A L A I R P O R T
Midway
International Airport (IATA: MDW, ICAO: KMDW, FAA LID: MDW) is a major
commercial airport on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois, located
eight miles (13 km) from the Loop. Established in 1927, Midway served as
Chicago's primary airport until the opening of O'Hare International
Airport in 1955. Today, Midway is the second-largest airport in Chicago
metropolitan area and the state of Illinois. Traffic is currently
dominated by low-cost carrier Southwest Airlines; Chicago is Southwest's
largest focus city. Chicago Midway International Airport covers just
over one square mile (650 acres or 260 hectares) and has five runways.
Midway is surrounded by buildings and other development, so the landing
thresholds of the runways are displaced to provide obstacle clearance.
The FAA and the airlines ensure safety by adhering to calculated load
limits and various weather minimums. Because of the displaced landing
thresholds, the runways have shorter distances available for landings
than for takeoffs. 13C/31C, the longest runway, only has an available
landing distance of 6,059 feet (1,847 m) in the southeast direction, and
5,826 feet (1,776 m) to the northwest. The largest aircraft normally
seen at Midway is the Boeing 757.
K P W K C H I C A G O E X E C U T I V E A I R P O R T
Chicago
Executive Airport (IATA: PWK, ICAO: KPWK, FAA LID: PWK), formerly
Palwaukee Municipal Airport, is a public airport 18 miles (33 km)
northwest of Chicago, in the village of Wheeling in Cook County,
Illinois, United States. The airport logs over 77,000 take-offs and
landings each year and is the fourth busiest airport in Illinois. The
airport covers 411 acres (166 ha) at an elevation of 647 feet (197 m).
It has three asphalt runways. For the year ending July 31, 2014 the
airport had 77,321 aircraft operations, an average of 212 per day: 83%
general aviation, 17% air taxi and less than 1% military. In June 2017,
there were 194 aircraft based at this airport: 105 single-engine, 22
multi-engine, 62 jet and 5 helicopter. The airport can handle executive
jets in the 20-seat range, such as the Grumman Gulfstream and the
Bombardier Challenger, and larger aircraft occasionally visit.
Occasional military transport aircraft, such as the Lockheed C-130, use
the airport when carrying service members to local facilities such as
Great Lakes Naval Training Center or the North Chicago V.A. Hospital.
I N S T A L L A T I O N
The
product will be automatically added to the Flight Simulator Scenery
Library. Our installer provides you additional optional features during
install. To select different options, simply run the installer again.
Uninstall instructions are provided in the manual.
S C E N E R Y F E A T U R E S
3
high quality airports included: KORD O’Hare, KMDW Midway and KPWK
Executive in the most up-to-date versions possible, including
new/extended runways and taxiways at KORD and terminal extensions in
Midway.
Extensive though performance-friendly interior modeling at all terminal buildings and some hangars
Highly
advanced performance-friendly design, numerous optimization techniques
used, the Lite Texture Pack provided for 32-bit platforms
Custom KORD charts, custom animations, SODE jetways, advanced materials, hundreds of optional static aircraft, dynamic lighting.
