Landing at Meigs Airport in a Piper Archer II

[SableSpike747]

Carving X's on the runways was such an atrocious thing to do. I never got to go to Meigs but it does sound like it was loved by many people.

[PilotPete109]

You must have been delighted to hear mayor "D" is on his way out. Hopefully this will mean some positive changes for avaition and other areas.

[PilotK5210Q]

I cannot wait until this ^$&#@ of a politician leaves office, I can only say WHAT TOOK SO LONG!

[GoJakob]

its always the special airports which become subject to closure with almost no sturdy reason. same here in germany with berlin tempelhof. an absolutely interesting great city airport with a huge potential and an important historic background. in german we have a word which describes such a mindless political behavior perfectly: aktionismus - in english maybe "doing things for the sake of doing things" - just to cover up political incapability. such a shame!

[joemccormick]

They closed down Meigs!? Someone explain lol. I was really looking forward to hopefully someday doing a cross country there...hmph.

[lockheedeagle]

@joemccormick Yeah. Mayor/King/Dictator Daily decided, for whatever reason, that Meigs had to go. In direct violation of several laws governing public policy, air traffic, and transportation safety, he ordered a crew of several bull dozers to be trucked into the airport literally under cover of darkness and in total secrecy bull dozed runway 18-36. The next morning all of the pilots woke up to find themselves without a runway and the FAA authorized takeoff from the taxiway a week later.

[ImpulsivePlay3r]

what an amazing airport, i miss it alot :(

[MrDanieldb]

It was a beautiful little airport...........

[fordairport]

If that lying, greedy, prick Daley had it his way he would close every single GA airport across the county because he simply does not like aviation in fact he hates it. It just makes me sick that they did this. Once an airport closes it does not re-open once its gone its gone forever. I cannot express my hate and anger in words towards the city; the airport was a hugh asset for the GA and aviation community.

[c172kid]

@fordairport He doesn't hate aviation... You obviously know nothing about the fact because he was pressured to close the airport because of safety concerns. Also every story about Mrs. D wanting the place changed to a park is also bullshit.

[PilotK5210Q]

@c172kid If you believe that bull about safety you are SO uninformed, and you should SERIOUSLY get educated and stop listening to the media outlets. Daily broke the law, violated contract with the Federal government, took money for O'hare in a deal that would keep Meigs open, and there is NO credible evidence of any safety issues, and there never has been! The airport is too small to have any planes big enough that can seriously damage anything when they hit say a building. What a joke!

[Jimfoxyboy]

Thank you for preserving this bit of history on video. I wasn't very impressed when I heard and read about what they did to the land and airport. And I live way out on the west coast of Canada. It provided a measure of safety to those flying over the lake I had always thought beyond just a convenient way of getting into the city.

I haven't actually flown through the airport myself, but I do have fond memories of flying about it on my now old flight sim.

[thatswassup22]

Great Vid..No annoying music just Engine and ATC...Nice steady hand with the camera too...

[ChrizRockster]

Nice landing!

[PilotPete109]

Love the skyline! Great Landing. 5 stars.

[brad325is]

Nice video! I miss working the tower at Meigs...what a beautiful airport it was and a lot of fun to work (minus the political BS). I left prior to the midnight raid from Daley...what a waste of space it is now.

[PilotK5210Q]

@brad325is

This was the first landing I made there. We stayed a night watched the opening night of the first Spider Man Movie, ate in really fancy restaurants, and spent a lot of money at the American Girl Store. We did this about every 6-8 months until they tore it up. We actually were there just days before the event took place.

I decided I'm not going back to Chicago until the people of Chicago fire the mayor. They don't know what they lost. I take my trips to Pigeon Forge now.

[fassiful]

perfect

[KlagTerrow]

Great Vid! Thanks for posting it!

[tradingpilot]

Seneca LIMA PAPA needs to read back ATC instructions :)

KCGX was great!

[cr8nkaos]

Nice!!!

[blaider222]

perfect

[satexadmin]

I learned to fly in the archer. I noticed you clickin on the flaps. If I had the runway for it, I always took it in hot if it was a busy airport and just used it all. Otherwise you have that sloooow approach and you just end up using the runway as a taxiway. I never liked how the small singles handled with full flap. Too mushy.

[satexadmin]

On of the greatest GA airports the world has ever seen.

[av8rcaptain]

oh how I miss that airport...thanks for the video!