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Leicester Airport

52.60780°N
-1.03194°W
ARR / DAY
12
▼ 65.3%
DEP / DAY
10
▼ 70.1%

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 12 arrivals and 10 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)

58m ago
Temp
62°F
Wind
11 kts
270°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
EGUN 160955Z 27011KT 9999 FEW021 SCT055 BKN095 17/12 A3006 RMK AO2A SLP182 T01660117 $

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
43% of ops
293 land · 303 TO
10
19% of ops
132 land · 42 TO
22
11% of ops
75 land · 77 TO
06
7% of ops
48 land · 12 TO
04
6% of ops
38 land · 19 TO
24
4% of ops
30 land · 4 TO
Runway 28 carries 43% of operations (293 landings, 303 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 10 at 19%.

Approach quality

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

28 293 landings
UA 2%
10 132 landings
UA 6%
22 75 landings
UA 3%
06 48 landings
UA 2%
04 38 landings
UA 13%
24 30 landings
UA 13%
Approaches to 28 show a 2% unstable-approach rate (6 UA events from 293 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
26.5
flights/day · 795 total
Busy hour (local)
10am
also 9am · 2pm
Day vs night
100%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 10am–2pm local, averaging 26.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 2.5× weekday (48.9 vs 19.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

125 · 26%
60 · 12%
35 · 7%
31 · 6%
30 · 6%
26 · 5%
Activity is led by (26% of 484 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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