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Leicester Airport

52.60780°N
-1.03194°W
ARR / DAY
10
▲ 11.1%
DEP / DAY
7
▲ 0.0%

Leicester Airport (EGBG) is a small general aviation airport located in Leicester, United Kingdom. It features 5 runways with the longest being 3,084 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 10 arrivals and 7 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

From EGNX, 20 mi away (EGBG does not publish METAR)

42m ago
Temp
63°F
Wind
10 kts
280°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
EGNX 161650Z 28010KT 9999 SCT034 17/10 Q1017

Runways

5 installed

3,084 FT MAX
04/22
1,608 ft × 59
ASP○ unlit
06/24
1,099 ft × 98
GRS○ unlit
10/28
3,084 ft × 98
ASP● LIT
15/33
1,624 ft × 59
ASP○ unlit
16/34
1,371 ft × 98
GRS○ unlit

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

28
44% of ops
289 land · 281 TO
10
18% of ops
120 land · 42 TO
22
11% of ops
71 land · 77 TO
06
6% of ops
42 land · 12 TO
04
6% of ops
36 land · 19 TO
24
4% of ops
26 land · 4 TO
Runway 28 carries 44% of operations (289 landings, 281 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 10 at 18%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

28 289 landings
UA 2%
10 120 landings
UA 5%
22 71 landings
UA 3%
06 42 landings
UA 2%
04 36 landings
UA 14%
24 26 landings
UA 15%
Approaches to 28 show a 2% unstable-approach rate (6 UA events from 289 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg
25.9
flights/day · 776 total
Busy hour (local)
10am
also 9am · 2pm
Day vs night
100%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 10am–2pm local, averaging 25.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 2.7× weekday (48.9 vs 18.3 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

120 · 25%
59 · 12%
35 · 7%
31 · 7%
30 · 6%
26 · 5%
Activity is led by (25% of 474 flights). Top three types: , , .

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

1
supercub_cliffy
12/28/2013
LAC
friendly airport in the middle of england greatly recommended
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