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Solent Airport

50.81420°N
-1.20333°W
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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.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
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Return to field
0

Current weather

From EGHI, 12 mi away (EGHF does not publish METAR)

51m ago
Temp
70°F
Wind
7 kts
240°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
EGHI 070850Z AUTO 24007KT 200V270 9999 SCT016 BKN037 21/17 Q1017

Runways

3 installed

3,375 FT MAX
05/23
3,375 ft × 98
Asphalt○ unlit
10/28
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
37% of ops
390 land · 175 TO
23
23% of ops
241 land · 219 TO
16
13% of ops
138 land · 5 TO
25
9% of ops
93 land · 36 TO
28
7% of ops
77 land · 1 TO
10
7% of ops
75 land · 5 TO
Runway 05 carries 37% of operations (390 landings, 175 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

05 390 landings
UA 9%
23 241 landings
UA 10%
16 138 landings
UA 7%
25 93 landings
UA 5%
28 77 landings
UA 9%
10 75 landings
UA 11%
Approaches to 05 show a 9% unstable-approach rate (35 UA events from 390 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
27.4
flights/day · 821 total
Busy hour (local)
11am
also 10am · 2pm
Day vs night
100%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 11am–2pm local, averaging 27.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 2.0× weekday (44.2 vs 22.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

261 · 44%
65 · 11%
61 · 10%
20 · 3%
20 · 3%
16 · 3%
Activity is led by (44% of 589 flights). Top three types: , , .

Pilot & community notes

2 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

2
Anonymous
11/09/2011
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
04/23/2008
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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