There was a Midway Airlines in the 1980s based at Midway Airport. They were the first to use Midway after it came out of mothballs of the 70s. Nice airline, plenty of seat room (four across, if memory serves) and super nice flight attendants and gate agents. I used to take their flughts to Cleveland. Very nice. They went out of business after a bad decision to add a hub in Philly, then fuel prices skyrocketed. Too bad. Nice little airline.
The first time I was at Midway I was shocked/impressed. As we taxied to the runway we skirted a wall with a residential neighborhood on the other side. I could look into peoples windows. I can't believe they put up with the racket of an operating airfield. Then on take off the runway seemed a bit short to allow for a lot of options if you had to abort a takeoff. And not to mention the wall at the end of the runway. Other than the fact that airport security sucks even more at Midway than any other airport I've ever been to. I enjoyed flying from this airport. Special kudos to the Battle of Midway memorial.
Nice landing! I've landed there 5 times and I enjoy the vast amount of homes and commercial buildings close to the flight path. It's a huge, huge area.
They sure do slam on the brakes when they land at Midway! Not surprising as the runways are short (6000 ft). Compare that with the laid back landings on Denver's 12.000 ft runways.
Indeed, it looked like it was a little rough when landing. Always nice to see Chicago, the best city ih the world! Go Bears, Cubs, Sox, Bulls, and Hawks!
Wow that descent rate over the threshold was crazy! I thought that was going to continue and you were gonna hit the ground that hard, but it looks like he caught that perfect flare to sorta grease that thing on in there. Nice landing!
MDW is short - you have to make sure you get her on by the TDZ - no fussing around with finesse. Plant it, stop it. They got it right on the money (just before the TDZ - the two big stripes).
sam mich LMAO Idk if you're familiar with the surrounding neighborhoods but it probably was chicken and he'd probably shoot you if you tried to take it. LOL
Not quite as wild a ride as your landing from 2011 but still an awesome video! Man, landing at Midway is like going on some kind of amusement park ride! That approach and landing are worth the ticket price all on their own!
that wasn't that bad for southwest, 800's tend to be smoother than other southwest planes, but at midway with battling the chicago winds and the short runway firm landings are much more common
jab12495 True. 737-800 touchdowns can be smoother on longer (and dry) runways, because its vRef will be higher than a -700/-300's vRef - even if their calculated landing weights were similar. The -800's higher vRefs are there to protect against tail strikes during flare. For this reason, -800s have a smaller margin for error on a wet runway at MDW or BUR.
GTA Kid Correct, along with over a hundred -300s. All of Southwest's remaining -500s are currently scheduled to be retired by the end of next year. The last of the -300s are predicted to hang around for ~ another 4.5 years.
I'm flying in September with family members and I am thinking we will probably leave from Midway to San Diego. I will do video tapes and I will for sure video tape the landins of both. I read that Midway and San Diego are among the top 10 scariest airports to land in. I know Midway has the short runway. And San Diego they said they get cross winds. I would love to fly out of Midway I have flown out of Ohare many many times but never Midway. I have flown into San Diego airport 3 times in the past but one year I flew straight to Los Angelos and transferred to a turbo prop plane to land closer to my sisters house. I have never been afraid of flying. The only times I can remember getting nervous is actually when they start up the engines and start driving towards the runway because I am like oh boy here we go. But take offs and landings are not scary to me. I actually think its exciting and not scary when the plane suddenly bolts down the runway to take off. Turbulance never scared me either.
As much as I love planes I don't think I could live so close to an airport. I live about 15 miles from KCLT and 5 miles directly under the flight path to Concord Regional (NASCAR's airport, sees Alliegent airlines and charter/cargo operations) and even the traffic for both of them is loud enough to be audible inside. Looks like some of these homes are less than half a mile from the threshold, if my experience eating at a restaurant near the airport is any indicator, each passing plane would literally shake the foundation of one's home.
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