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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.
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
refueling 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.
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 the 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.
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
helicopters. 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.
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