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Leicester Airport

52.60780°N
-1.03194°W
ARR / DAY
51
▲ 45.7%
DEP / DAY
26
▲ 62.5%

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 51 arrivals and 26 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 EGUN, 66 mi away (EGBG does not publish METAR)

1h ago
Temp
68°F
Wind
8 kts
290°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
EGUN 051555Z 29008KT 9999 BKN049 20/07 A3023 RMK SLPNO RVRNO WND DATA ESTMD ALSTG ESTMD $

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

28
31% of ops
269 land · 333 TO
10
25% of ops
218 land · 87 TO
22
8% of ops
72 land · 8 TO
04
8% of ops
67 land · 33 TO
06
8% of ops
66 land · 14 TO
15
5% of ops
42 land · 0 TO
Runway 28 carries 31% of operations (269 landings, 333 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 10 at 25%.

Approach quality

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

28 269 landings
UA 2%
10 218 landings
UA 6%
22 72 landings
UA 6%
04 67 landings
UA 9%
06 66 landings
UA 5%
15 42 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 28 show a 2% unstable-approach rate (6 UA events from 269 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
20.4
flights/day · 613 total
Busy hour (local)
10am
also 12pm · 9am
Day vs night
100%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 9am–10am local, averaging 20.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (18.1 vs 22.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

161 · 37%
57 · 13%
28 · 7%
19 · 4%
17 · 4%
16 · 4%
Activity is led by (37% of 430 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)

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supercub_cliffy
12/28/2013
LAC
friendly airport in the middle of england greatly recommended
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