KMDW Chicago Midway MSFS

[clawz24]

Hello,

I installed the latest update via simmarket earlier today. Just tried a flight from KIND to KMDW. However, beyondatc is not working with the new update (it worked with the previous KMDW scenery prior to the update). It's not recognizing the runways in the scenery data from the update. Can someone assist, many thanks.

Jermaine

I am encountering the same issue when attempting a flight using BeyondATC with an arrival at KMDW. An errror message from BeyondATC states "Your arrival airport has no active runways defined. This is likely due to a discrepancy in runway data between scenery and AIRAC"

[Jermaine]

Hello,

I installed the latest update via simmarket earlier today. Just tried a flight from KIND to KMDW. However, beyondatc is not working with the new update (it worked with the previous KMDW scenery prior to the update). It's not recognizing the runways in the scenery data from the update. Can someone assist, many thanks.

Jermaine

I am encountering the same issue when attempting a flight using BeyondATC with an arrival at KMDW. An errror message from BeyondATC states "Your arrival airport has no active runways defined. This is likely due to a discrepancy in runway data between scenery and AIRAC"

This appears to be happening when runways 31L/R are active. I did a flight last night when runways 22L/R were active and no issues encountered with beyondatc. Tried a flight just now (with runways 31L/R active (per the atis) and issue happens again (I took a screenshot but don't see an option to attach the error from BATC)

[rudycub23]

We've made the change for the ORBX installer and both options are working properly for me at least.

Hi John.

Quick question; I originally purchased KMDW via Orbx, and I can't seem to find any option to disable the statics during the download process. The only option that I am presented with is where I would like the download to be located.

Am I missing something?

[John Burgess]

We've made the change for the ORBX installer and both options are working properly for me at least.

Hi John.

Quick question; I originally purchased KMDW via Orbx, and I can't seem to find any option to disable the statics during the download process. The only option that I am presented with is where I would like the download to be located.

Am I missing something?

After the installation you should find ORBX Central has a configure button for KMDW (sometimes you need to reload OC after the install for it to appear). That gives you various options including one for 'no static aircraft'.

Hope that helps.

All the best,

John

[rudycub23]

After the installation you should find ORBX Central has a configure button for KMDW (sometimes you need to reload OC after the install for it to appear). That gives you various options including one for 'no static aircraft'.

Hope that helps.

All the best,

John

Thank you, John, for your quick reply to my question.

That works perfectly; Thank you so much!

Scott

[Jermaine]

Hello,

I installed the latest update via simmarket earlier today. Just tried a flight from KIND to KMDW. However, beyondatc is not working with the new update (it worked with the previous KMDW scenery prior to the update). It's not recognizing the runways in the scenery data from the update. Can someone assist, many thanks.

Jermaine

I am encountering the same issue when attempting a flight using BeyondATC with an arrival at KMDW. An errror message from BeyondATC states "Your arrival airport has no active runways defined. This is likely due to a discrepancy in runway data between scenery and AIRAC"

This appears to be happening when runways 31L/R are active. I did a flight last night when runways 22L/R were active and no issues encountered with beyondatc. Tried a flight just now (with runways 31L/R active (per the atis) and issue happens again (I took a screenshot but don't see an option to attach the error from BATC)

Hello,

Can someone from the development team check into this issue with the updated scenery. This is one of my favorite airports to fly into, but can't use BATC at the moment if 31L/R or 13L/R is active. Would be much appreciated, many thanks.

[Martin_Starski]

Hi, I will check whether there’s anything that we can do but have you also contacted BATC about it? It might be helpful to find the cause of a problem as their addon is reporting the issue.

[Jermaine]

Hi Martin,

Many thanks for your assistance. Once you confirm that there is no issue on your end, I will contact BATC. Based on my experience with them, they would usually suggest to contact the scenery developer first to ensure that there is no issue with the scenery files (since that is where they extract their data for the program to function properly). As mentioned, it appears to only affect the instances when runways 31L/R are in use (22L/R seems to be fine with BATC). Thanks again.

[Martin_Starski]

Hi, the point is that we don't use BATC, we've never said that our scenery is compatible with it - it's pretty hard to say why the third-party addon is not working with our scenery. It would be good to have an opinion/hint from BATC, what might be confusing to their app. In the meantime, I will ask my colleagues whether they get any idea.

[rudycub23]

Hi, the point is that we don't use BATC, we've never said that our scenery is compatible with it - it's pretty hard to say why the third-party addon is not working with our scenery. It would be good to have an opinion/hint from BATC, what might be confusing to their app. In the meantime, I will ask my colleagues whether they get any idea.

Hi Martin.

With regard to this issue, it was suggested in the BATC Discord to try resetting the MSFS Scenery Index to see if that resolved the issue, but unfortunately, the problems with 13L/R and 31L/R persist.

I've reported this over on their Discord, so hopefully some more eyes will see it and perhaps have some other insights.

[rudycub23]

Another small follow-up:

I'm not certain if this means anything, but I just tried KMDW using the MSFS default ATC, and it seems that while I can tune to ATIS (which shows 13s to be Active), when I tune to clearance, no options to request clearance are presented.

Again, not certain this means anything, but just thought that I would mention it.

[rudycub23]

Another small follow-up:

I'm not certain if this means anything, but I just tried KMDW using the MSFS default ATC, and it seems that while I can tune to ATIS (which shows 13s to be Active), when I tune to clearance, no options to request clearance are presented.

Again, not certain this means anything, but just thought that I would mention it.

And once again, I am an idiot. After going back over it, I was able to get IFR clearance with the default ATC.

Disregard the previous post...

[fakeflyer737]

Have you guys tried a takeoff roll on 4R?

Im getting a pretty big bump as a roll down it. Not sure exactly where it is though. Maybe in the middle.

[Jermaine]

Hi, the point is that we don't use BATC, we've never said that our scenery is compatible with it - it's pretty hard to say why the third-party addon is not working with our scenery. It would be good to have an opinion/hint from BATC, what might be confusing to their app. In the meantime, I will ask my colleagues whether they get any idea.

Hi Martin,
Just an update - based on a post on the BATC discord, they appear to be working on a fix on their end which will be included in a future update to resolve the issue with the updated KMDW scenery (specifically, when operations require 13L/R or 31L/R). Many thanks for your assistance.

[Martin_Starski]

Im getting a pretty big bump as a roll down it.

Hi. Which sim? Have you installed the last version from scratch? What about prioritization and rebuilding sceneryindexes?