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Solent Airport

50.81420°N
-1.20333°W
ARR / DAY
12
▼ 33.1%
DEP / DAY
9
▼ 22.2%

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 12 arrivals and 9 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 EGHI, 12 mi away (EGHF does not publish METAR)

55m ago
Temp
75°F
Wind
11 kts
250°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
EGHI 031150Z AUTO 25011KT 9999 SCT024 BKN028 BKN033 24/18 Q1018

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
38% of ops
387 land · 174 TO
23
22% of ops
227 land · 194 TO
16
15% of ops
149 land · 6 TO
25
9% of ops
93 land · 36 TO
10
7% of ops
75 land · 3 TO
28
6% of ops
62 land · 2 TO
Runway 05 carries 38% of operations (387 landings, 174 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 23 at 22%.

Approach quality

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

05 387 landings
UA 9%
23 227 landings
UA 10%
16 149 landings
UA 6%
25 93 landings
UA 5%
10 75 landings
UA 11%
28 62 landings
UA 6%
Approaches to 05 show a 9% unstable-approach rate (35 UA events from 387 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
26.3
flights/day · 788 total
Busy hour (local)
11am
also 2pm · 10am
Day vs night
100%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 10am–11am local, averaging 26.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.3× weekday (32.2 vs 25.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

246 · 43%
72 · 13%
60 · 11%
20 · 4%
19 · 3%
14 · 2%
Activity is led by (43% 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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