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Leicester Airport

52.60780°N
-1.03194°W
ARR / DAY
11
▲ 35.1%
DEP / DAY
8
▲ 0.0%

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 11 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)

59m ago
Temp
63°F
Wind
18 kts
250°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
EGNX 040850Z 25018KT 9999 SCT011 BKN022 17/14 Q1009

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
27% of ops
226 land · 314 TO
10
27% of ops
221 land · 87 TO
04
8% of ops
69 land · 33 TO
22
8% of ops
69 land · 8 TO
06
8% of ops
68 land · 14 TO
15
5% of ops
42 land · 0 TO
Runway 28 carries 27% of operations (226 landings, 314 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 10 at 27%.

Approach quality

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

28 226 landings
UA 3%
10 221 landings
UA 5%
04 69 landings
UA 9%
22 69 landings
UA 6%
06 68 landings
UA 6%
15 42 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 28 show a 3% unstable-approach rate (6 UA events from 226 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
18.4
flights/day · 552 total
Busy hour (local)
10am
also 12pm · 11am
Day vs night
100%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 10am–11am local, averaging 18.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (18.1 vs 19.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

163 · 40%
52 · 13%
30 · 7%
17 · 4%
13 · 3%
13 · 3%
Activity is led by (40% of 411 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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