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Solent Airport

50.81420°N
-1.20333°W
ARR / DAY
23
▼ 3.0%
DEP / DAY
14
▼ 10.8%

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 23 arrivals and 14 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 EGHI, 12 mi away (EGHF does not publish METAR)

53m ago
Temp
88°F
Wind
5 kts
150°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
EGHI 121650Z AUTO 15005KT 120V200 9999 NCD 31/11 Q1021

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
33% of ops
542 land · 247 TO
23
23% of ops
370 land · 253 TO
16
12% of ops
197 land · 25 TO
10
12% of ops
191 land · 5 TO
25
11% of ops
188 land · 48 TO
34
6% of ops
91 land · 132 TO
Runway 05 carries 33% of operations (542 landings, 247 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 23 at 23%.

Approach quality

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

05 542 landings
UA 8%
23 370 landings
UA 15%
16 197 landings
UA 6%
10 191 landings
UA 4%
25 188 landings
UA 7%
34 91 landings
UA 10%
Approaches to 05 show a 8% unstable-approach rate (43 UA events from 542 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
32.4
flights/day · 973 total
Busy hour (local)
12pm
also 11am · 10am
Day vs night
100%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 10am–12pm local, averaging 32.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.2× weekday (37.4 vs 32.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

254 · 40%
81 · 13%
56 · 9%
20 · 3%
18 · 3%
18 · 3%
Activity is led by (40% of 632 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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