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Adelaide Parafield Airport

-34.79330°N
138.63300°W
ARR / DAY
79
1.5%
DEP / DAY
82
5.3%

Adelaide Parafield Airport (YPPF) is a small general aviation airport located in Adelaide, Australia. It features 4 runways with the longest being 4,429 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 79 arrivals and 82 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

From YPAD, 12 mi away (YPPF does not publish METAR)

47m ago
Temp
54°F
Wind
5 kts
100°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
YPAD 291230Z AUTO 10005KT 9999 // NCD 12/08 Q1034

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

03R
23% of ops
796 land · 1,199 TO
03L
21% of ops
735 land · 384 TO
21R
20% of ops
680 land · 946 TO
21L
14% of ops
494 land · 151 TO
26L
9% of ops
302 land · 293 TO
26R
6% of ops
212 land · 204 TO
Runway 03R carries 23% of operations (796 landings, 1,199 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 03L at 21%.

Approach quality

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

03R 796 landings
UA 1%
03L 735 landings
UA 1%
21R 680 landings
UA 1%
21L 494 landings
UA 0%
26L 302 landings
UA 1%
26R 212 landings
UA 2%
Approaches to 03R show a 1% unstable-approach rate (6 UA events from 796 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
95.5
flights/day · 2,866 total
Busy hour (local)
12am
also 3am · 4am
Day vs night
16%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 12am–4am local, averaging 95.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (78.0 vs 106.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (66% of 2,794 flights). Top three types: , , .

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

peak 4 AM · 1 movement every 200 s
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
07/19/2017
(no subject)
lots of training aircraft, this is where Cathay, uni sa, and many other school run out from, 4 strips = 8 runways, most people with private aircraft generally would hanger in this location, has BP av fuel and tankers which cruise around topping up AC, quality ATC as they are used to trainees and are forgiving with poor radio calls, runways are over 1000m so heaps of room for landing
Ozguy
07/29/2007
Parafield
A most friendly airport.
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