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Bacchus Marsh Airport

-37.73333°N

144.42167°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 60.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 50.9%

Bacchus Marsh Airport (YBSS) is a small general aviation airport located in Australia, 46 km north of Geelong. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,098 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 6 arrivals and 8 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

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Wind

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Runways

2 installed

5,098 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

42% of ops

614 land · 664 TO

34% of ops

498 land · 368 TO

16% of ops

229 land · 218 TO

9% of ops

128 land · 63 TO

Runway 27 carries 42% of operations (614 landings, 664 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 01 at 34%.

Approach quality

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

27 614 landings

UA 5%

01 498 landings

UA 3%

19 229 landings

UA 2%

09 128 landings

UA 5%

Approaches to 27 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (32 UA events from 614 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

20.3

flights/day · 608 total

Busy hour (local)

3am

also 12am · 5am

Day vs night

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3am–5am local, averaging 20.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (22.4 vs 20.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (61% of 589 flights). Top three types: , , .

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

5 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

Kitwalker

10/13/2014

BBQ next weekend (18th October 2014)

There is a bbq to be held for the hangar owners at B/M this weekend. Kicking off around 11 am. All local aircraft owners & Hangar owners are welcome. Venue Paul K's hangar (opposite the Flying School)

Anonymous

01/04/2014

Hangarage

Hi all, Came across this thread and trying to find some updated info. I have a Pitts and am wondering if there is any available hangarage in Bacchus Marsh? He doesn't take up much space! Many thanks.

brilin_air

04/23/2012

YBSS

We welcome all pilots flying into our airport! If you need to be in Melbourne for a short period of time, we are able to accommodate hangarage, providing your aircraft is suitable, (recreational aircraft only) Our Avgas prices are either comparable to Point Cook or slightly cheaper, and it is correct, landing fees are waivered if you are refuelling, or getting hangarage for your short stay. Linda Bacchus Marsh Aero Association (Sec)

ptomblin

01/08/2011

re: Elevation

Reply to @ptomblin: I confirmed from the AIP that the elevation is really 520 ft.

ptomblin

01/07/2011

Elevation

Just got an email from a user of the CoPilot iPhone app saying that the elevation isn't 118 ft, it's closer to 500 ft. I wonder if that means it's really 118 metres? If you go to the terrain map you see an unlabeled contour line and then another labeled 200 m as you head uphill from the airport.

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