Carcass Island Landing Strip

FK-0011 · Falkland Islands

METAR FK-0011 · Carcass Island Landing Strip

29 March 12:20 LT
13m
The METAR station used is 161 km away from the airport
Compass
Wind direction of Wind direction 280° Carcass Island Landing Strip 12/30
Wind: 30 kt, 7 beaufort

26 kt

14 kt
Change
0 ft 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000
Cloud Cloud
FEW 3,500
METAR EGYP 291520Z 28030KT 9999 FEW035 12/03 Q0985 NOSIG

METAR Carcass Island Landing Strip - FK-0011

This field is located in Falkland Islands. The airport is located at latitude -51.26092 and longitude -60.59202. The airport has 3 runways: 12/30, 18/36 and 4/22. This airport has no ICAO code, we use FK-0011 as reference. The airport is in the Comodoro Rivadavia FIR.

This aviation weather observation was made for Mount Pleasant Airport on March 29, 2024 12:20, local time.

Airport observations

The wind is from direction 280° with a speed of 30 kt.

Visibility is 10 km or more.

There are few clouds at an altitude of 3,500 ft. No ceiling has been observed.

The temperature and wind chill are 12 °C. The dew point is 3 °C, the relative humidity is 54%. The air pressure at sea level is 985 hPa (QNH).

Daylight period

Today the sun rises at 07:20 and sets at 18:53. This applies to Carcass Island Landing Strip, the universal daylight period may be different. The difference between the local time and UTC is -3 hour. Currently, there is no daylight saving time in effect.

Companies

We don't have information about companies on this airport.

Experiences

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Runways

Id Heading Crosswind Headwind Crosswind %
12/30 128°-308° 14 kt 26 kt 47 %
18/36 188°-008° 30 kt 1 kt 100 %
4/22 046°-226° 24 kt 18 kt 81 %

The direction with the greatest headwind component is highlighted and used for crosswind calculation. This does not necessarily mean this direction is in use.

Clouds

3,500 ft FEW Few clouds

Temperature & Weather

Temperature 12 °C
Dewpoint 3 °C
Rel. humidity 54%
Kp-index 0 (0-9)

Daylight period

Sunrise
07:11
Midday
12:58
Sunset
18:44 (6:11h)

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