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Solent Airport

50.81420°N
-1.20333°W
ARR / DAY
9
▲ 350.0%
DEP / DAY
6
▲ 0.0%

Solent Airport (EGHF) is a small general aviation airport located in Lee-on-Solent, United Kingdom. It features 3 runways with the longest being 3,375 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 9 arrivals and 6 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 EGVA, 65 mi away (EGHF does not publish METAR)

1h ago
Temp
62°F
Wind
9 kts
290°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
EGVA 160855Z 29009KT 9999 CLR 17/11 A3013 RMK AO2A SLP206 T01660109 53005 $

Runways

3 installed

3,375 FT MAX
05/23
3,375 ft × 98
Asphalt○ unlit
10/25
2,590 ft × 144
Asphalt○ unlitCLOSED
16/34
2,200 ft × 140
Asphalt○ unlitCLOSED

Runway intelligence

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

05
30% of ops
207 land · 55 TO
23
29% of ops
196 land · 219 TO
16
14% of ops
97 land · 9 TO
28
11% of ops
75 land · 1 TO
25
8% of ops
54 land · 27 TO
10
5% of ops
37 land · 4 TO
Runway 05 carries 30% of operations (207 landings, 55 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 23 at 29%.

Approach quality

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

05 207 landings
UA 6%
23 196 landings
UA 12%
16 97 landings
UA 7%
28 75 landings
UA 13%
25 54 landings
UA 6%
10 37 landings
UA 5%
Approaches to 05 show a 6% unstable-approach rate (13 UA events from 207 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
22.2
flights/day · 666 total
Busy hour (local)
11am
also 2pm · 12pm
Day vs night
100%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 11am–12pm local, averaging 22.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.4× weekday (29.2 vs 20.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

204 · 40%
57 · 11%
42 · 8%
41 · 8%
20 · 4%
18 · 4%
Activity is led by (40% of 511 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

2 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

2
Anonymous
11/9/2011
Lee-on-the-Solent
LFA winning battle and airfield has gained enterprise zone status ,open to visiting a/c 7 days a week and has a healthy population of based light a/c and helicopters which is set to increase.
david
4/23/2008
Schedule to close in May 2008
The Royal Navy has abandoned this field, and it is scheduled to close on 14 May 2008; however, the Lee Flying Association is challenging the closure.
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