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Leicester Airport

52.60780°N
-1.03194°W
ARR / DAY
16
▲ 15.0%
DEP / DAY
15
▲ 44.6%

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 16 arrivals and 15 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

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

Current weather

From EGUN, 66 mi away (EGBG does not publish METAR)

1h ago
Temp
72°F
Wind
11 kts
30°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
EGUN 151055Z 03011KT 9999 BKN031 OVC060 22/14 A3005 RMK AO2A SLP179 T02210137 $

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

10
31% of ops
358 land · 153 TO
28
30% of ops
356 land · 394 TO
06
9% of ops
110 land · 43 TO
04
9% of ops
103 land · 43 TO
22
5% of ops
60 land · 5 TO
34
4% of ops
42 land · 0 TO
Runway 10 carries 31% of operations (358 landings, 153 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 28 at 30%.

Approach quality

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

10 358 landings
UA 2%
28 356 landings
UA 8%
06 110 landings
UA 16%
04 103 landings
UA 5%
22 60 landings
UA 7%
34 42 landings
UA 14%
Approaches to 10 show a 2% unstable-approach rate (8 UA events from 358 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
25.1
flights/day · 753 total
Busy hour (local)
12pm
also 10am · 2pm
Day vs night
99%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 12pm–2pm local, averaging 25.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (28.5 vs 25.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

209 · 37%
85 · 15%
74 · 13%
21 · 4%
17 · 3%
16 · 3%
Activity is led by (37% of 566 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)

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