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Solent Airport

50.81420°N
-1.20333°W
ARR / DAY
28
▲ 0.0%
DEP / DAY
23
▲ 35.3%

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. SkyMeter has observed roughly 28 arrivals and 23 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 EGHI, 12 mi away (EGHF does not publish METAR)

45m ago
Temp
70°F
Wind
6 kts
240°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
EGHI 131250Z AUTO 24006KT 220V290 9999 BKN015 21/19 Q1023

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
33% of ops
280 land · 91 TO
23
26% of ops
218 land · 233 TO
16
14% of ops
115 land · 8 TO
28
10% of ops
85 land · 1 TO
25
9% of ops
73 land · 31 TO
10
6% of ops
49 land · 4 TO
Runway 05 carries 33% of operations (280 landings, 91 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 23 at 26%.

Approach quality

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

05 280 landings
UA 6%
23 218 landings
UA 10%
16 115 landings
UA 8%
28 85 landings
UA 12%
25 73 landings
UA 5%
10 49 landings
UA 4%
Approaches to 05 show a 6% unstable-approach rate (17 UA events from 280 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
25.6
flights/day · 767 total
Busy hour (local)
11am
also 2pm · 10am
Day vs night
100%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 10am–11am local, averaging 25.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.9× weekday (40.6 vs 21.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

235 · 41%
62 · 11%
48 · 8%
41 · 7%
20 · 4%
19 · 3%
Activity is led by (41% of 571 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

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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