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Solent Airport

50.81420°N
-1.20333°W
ARR / DAY
19
▲ 51.7%
DEP / DAY
13
▲ 29.4%

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 19 arrivals and 13 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 EGLF, 37 mi away (EGHF does not publish METAR)

1h ago
Temp
57°F
Wind
0 kts
0°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR EGLF 262050Z AUTO 00000KT 9999 NCD 14/09 Q1022

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

23
31% of ops
169 land · 211 TO
05
27% of ops
148 land · 32 TO
28
18% of ops
99 land · 6 TO
16
11% of ops
62 land · 6 TO
10
7% of ops
39 land · 3 TO
34
4% of ops
23 land · 14 TO
Runway 23 carries 31% of operations (169 landings, 211 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 05 at 27%.

Approach quality

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

23 169 landings
UA 9%
05 148 landings
UA 5%
28 99 landings
UA 20%
16 62 landings
UA 10%
10 39 landings
UA 3%
34 23 landings
UA 4%
Approaches to 23 show a 9% unstable-approach rate (16 UA events from 169 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
22.5
flights/day · 674 total
Busy hour (local)
11am
also 10am · 1pm
Day vs night
100%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 11am–1pm local, averaging 22.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (23.8 vs 23.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

201 · 39%
57 · 11%
51 · 10%
29 · 6%
25 · 5%
24 · 5%
Activity is led by (39% of 510 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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