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Leicester Airport

52.60780°N
-1.03194°W
ARR / DAY
8
▼ 49.1%
DEP / DAY
8
▼ 47.0%

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 8 arrivals and 8 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 EGNX, 20 mi away (EGBG does not publish METAR)

50m ago
Temp
64°F
Wind
6 kts
10°
Visib
4506 m
Ceil
—
EGNX 271320Z 01006KT 340V050 4500 -RA FEW001 SCT008 BKN014 18/17 Q1008

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

10
28% of ops
150 land · 60 TO
28
27% of ops
146 land · 218 TO
06
10% of ops
55 land · 7 TO
04
8% of ops
45 land · 17 TO
22
8% of ops
42 land · 4 TO
15
4% of ops
22 land · 1 TO
Runway 10 carries 28% of operations (150 landings, 60 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 28 at 27%.

Approach quality

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

10 150 landings
UA 4%
28 146 landings
UA 3%
06 55 landings
UA 9%
04 45 landings
UA 7%
22 42 landings
UA 7%
15 22 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 10 show a 4% unstable-approach rate (6 UA events from 150 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
20.9
flights/day · 626 total
Busy hour (local)
10am
also 12pm · 9am
Day vs night
100%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 9am–10am local, averaging 20.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (22.9 vs 21.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

178 · 38%
67 · 14%
53 · 11%
16 · 3%
13 · 3%
12 · 3%
Activity is led by (38% of 470 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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