[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":421},["ShallowReactive",2],{"guide-\u002Fguide\u002Fairports\u002F":3,"guide-nav-\u002Fguide\u002Fairports\u002F":406},{"id":4,"title":5,"appVersion":6,"body":7,"date":381,"dateModified":382,"description":383,"draft":384,"extension":385,"faqs":382,"howTo":386,"keyTakeaways":393,"meta":398,"metaDescription":382,"navigation":399,"order":400,"path":401,"section":402,"seo":403,"stem":404,"__hash__":405},"guide\u002Fguide\u002Fairports.md","Airports","1.0.0",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":366},"minimark",[10,31,39,44,47,56,63,68,72,75,80,102,107,118,123,127,152,157,163,168,172,175,180,184,190,195,200,229,233,238,243,254,258,263,268,272,286,291,302,307,310,314,320,325,329,332,340,344],[11,12,13,14,18,19,22,23,26,27,30],"p",{},"The airport reference answers the small questions that come up around a\nflight - which runway is favoured in this wind, what the tower frequency\nis, when the sun sets at the destination - from a ",[15,16,17],"strong",{},"bundled database that\nworks offline",". There is no Airports tab: the reference comes to you\nwhere you need it - the ",[15,20,21],{},"Aviation Map's airport peek",", Home's\n",[15,24,25],{},"nearby airports"," shortcut, the station workbench's ",[15,28,29],{},"Airport"," tab -\nand the search page behind them all reaches every field in the\ndatabase.",[32,33,36],"callout",{"title":34,"type":35},"Reference data, honestly framed","warning",[11,37,38],{},"The bundled data comes from OurAirports, an open, public-domain dataset -\nthe app credits it on every surface that draws from it. Online, the app\nverifies runways and frequencies against aviationweather.gov and says\nexactly what came from where: \"Runway headings, displaced thresholds and\nsome frequencies gap-filled from OurAirports.\" Offline, the fallback line\nis just as plain: \"Data from OurAirports · Reference only. Verify with\ncurrent charts.\" None of it replaces current charts and NOTAMs - the app\nrepeats that wherever the data shows.",[40,41,43],"h2",{"id":42},"find-an-airport","Find an airport",[11,45,46],{},"The Airports page opens on a search field and the shortcuts that grow as\nyou use the module: your groups, the country browser, favourites and\nrecently viewed fields.",[48,49],"guide-shot",{"alt":50,"caption":51,"height":52,"src":53,"variant":54,"width":55},"The Airports page: a search field with placeholder ICAO, IATA, city or name, a Saved and collections card reading 1 collection, 3 airports total, a Browse by country card, a Favourites section with EGLL London 83 ft and EHAM Amsterdam -11 ft rows each carrying a gold star, and a Recently viewed strip with EGLL and EHAM pills","The Airports page: search on top, and your groups, favourites and recent fields below it.",2622,"\u002Fguide-images\u002Fairports\u002Fairports-home","iphone",1206,[11,57,58,59,62],{},"Search matches ",[15,60,61],{},"ICAO, IATA, city or name"," - \"EGLL\", \"LHR\" and \"Heathrow\"\nall find the same airport, and results appear as you type, entirely from\nthe on-device database. Fields you have starred sort to the top.",[48,64],{"alt":65,"caption":66,"height":52,"src":67,"variant":54,"width":55},"The airport search with AMSTERDAM typed: result rows for EHAM Amsterdam -11 ft carrying a filled gold star, EHHA Amsterdam 1 ft, FAAM Amsterdam South Africa 4,310 ft and SYNA New Amsterdam Guyana 3 ft, each with an outline star, above the keyboard","Search by name, city or code - starred fields lead the results.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fairports\u002Fairports-search",[40,69,71],{"id":70},"read-the-reference-page","Read the reference page",[11,73,74],{},"An airport's page is one scroll through everything the database holds on\nthe field, card by card.",[48,76],{"alt":77,"caption":78,"height":52,"src":79,"variant":54,"width":55},"The EGLL reference page top: the identity card with EGLL and LHR codes, a Scheduled service pill, a filled favourite star, London Heathrow Airport, London GB Large airport, elevation 83 ft and 25 m, coordinates 51.4707 N 0.4599 W, then the Timezone card with local time 10:07, zone Europe\u002FLondon, UTC offset +01:00 and DST active Yes","Identity first: codes, elevation in both units, coordinates - then the field's own clock.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fairports\u002Fairport-detail",[81,82,83,90,96],"ul",{},[84,85,86,89],"li",{},[15,87,88],{},"Identity"," - ICAO and IATA, scheduled-service status, type, elevation\nin feet and metres, coordinates. The star here is how a field joins your\nfavourites.",[84,91,92,95],{},[15,93,94],{},"Timezone"," - the field's local time right now, its IANA zone, UTC\noffset and whether DST is active.",[84,97,98,101],{},[15,99,100],{},"Sun"," - sunrise, sunset, day length, solar noon and all three twilight\nbands, local and Zulu, for any date you pick. The card names its method:\n\"Source: NOAA solar-position algorithm · Computed\".",[48,103],{"alt":104,"caption":105,"height":52,"src":106,"variant":54,"width":55},"The EGLL Sun card: sunrise 06:03 local 05:03Z, sunset 20:04 local 19:04Z, day length 14h 01m, solar noon 13:04, a twilight table with civil, nautical and astronomical dawn and dusk times, and the line Source: NOAA solar-position algorithm, Computed - above the Runways card with the 09L\u002F27R schematic strip, 12,802 ft and 3,902 m","Sun times for any date, twilight included - with the computation's source named.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fairports\u002Fairport-sun",[11,108,109,110,113,114,117],{},"The ",[15,111,112],{},"Runways"," card draws each physical runway as a schematic strip -\nidentifiers, length in both units, width, surface, and any ",[15,115,116],{},"displaced\nthreshold"," hatched and called out. The card states its limits in writing:\n\"Schematic - not to scale, not for navigation.\"",[48,119],{"alt":120,"caption":121,"height":52,"src":122,"variant":54,"width":55},"The runways card for EGLL: the 09L end detail with 090 T heading, ASP surface, 164 ft 50 m wide chips and an amber 09L displaced 1,007 ft 307 m note, the full 09R\u002F27L strip at 12,008 ft 3,660 m with its own displaced threshold note, the line Schematic - not to scale, not for navigation, and the top of the Crosswind by runway card with a wind rose reading 100 degrees 7 knots","Each runway as a schematic strip - displaced thresholds flagged, limits stated.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fairports\u002Fairport-runways",[40,124,126],{"id":125},"crosswind-and-low-sun-from-the-live-metar","Crosswind and low sun, from the live METAR",[11,128,129,130,137,138,141,142,145,146,151],{},"With a current ",[131,132,136],"a",{"href":133,"className":134},"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary#gt-metar",[135],"glossary-link","METAR"," available, the page decomposes the reported wind onto\n",[15,139,140],{},"every runway end",": headwind or tailwind and crosswind per end, with the\nmost-headwind end badged ",[15,143,144],{},"FAVOURED",". The card's own footnote is the\nhonest part worth reading: \"METAR wind is true; runway numbers are magnetic\nand may differ from tower\u002F",[131,147,150],{"href":148,"className":149},"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary#gt-atis",[135],"ATIS",". 'Favoured' = most headwind, not a\nrecommendation. Reference only - verify on charts\u002FATIS.\" The METAR itself\nis attributed with its source and age, and if there is no current METAR\nthe card says so instead of computing from stale air.",[48,153],{"alt":154,"caption":155,"height":52,"src":156,"variant":54,"width":55},"The crosswind by runway card for EGLL: a wind rose with the 09L\u002FR and 27L\u002FR runway axis and a wind arrow, then a table with rows for 09L and 09R reading headwind 7 crosswind 1 right with Favoured most headwind badges, and 27L and 27R reading tailwind 7 crosswind 1 left, above the footnote that METAR wind is true, runway numbers are magnetic, and favoured is not a recommendation","The live wind broken onto every runway end - favoured means most headwind, nothing more.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fairports\u002Fairport-crosswind",[11,158,109,159,162],{},[15,160,161],{},"low-sun glare"," card answers a narrower question: does a low sun\nline up with a runway heading right now, and when is the next alignment?\nIt draws the runways from above with the sun's position, names the next\nalignment window, and frames itself plainly: an informational cue only -\nthere is no official glare standard; verify visually.",[48,164],{"alt":165,"caption":166,"height":52,"src":167,"variant":54,"width":55},"The low-sun glare card for EGLL with a No glare badge: evaluated now, a top-down dial of the runways with the sun southeast at 123 degrees true and 36 degrees above the horizon, and a note that the sun is 36 degrees up with no low-sun glare on any runway now, the next low-sun alignment on RWY 27R and 27L around 17:54 to 18:58Z marked by a dashed wedge on the dial","The glare check: where the low sun will sit, and on which runway - an informational cue, nothing more.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fairports\u002Fairport-glare",[40,169,171],{"id":170},"frequencies","Frequencies",[11,173,174],{},"Radio frequencies come grouped - tower, ground, approach and departure,\nATIS, delivery, emergency - with the card's standing line beneath:\n\"Reference only - verify on current charts.\" Directly under the card sits\nthe attribution block for everything above it: the source, the fetch time,\nand which values were gap-filled from the bundled data.",[48,176],{"alt":177,"caption":178,"height":52,"src":179,"variant":54,"width":55},"The EGLL frequencies card: a Tower group with 118.5, 118.7 and 124.475 MHz, an Approach and Departure group with four Heathrow Director frequencies, the line Reference only - verify on current charts, then Source: aviationweather.gov, Fetched 24 Aug 10:19Z with the note that runway headings, displaced thresholds and some frequencies are gap-filled from OurAirports, and the top of the Nearby fields card","Frequencies grouped and framed - and the attribution block naming exactly what came from where.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fairports\u002Fairport-frequencies",[40,181,183],{"id":182},"keep-notes-on-a-field","Keep notes on a field",[11,185,109,186,189],{},[15,187,188],{},"Notes"," card holds your own memory of the airport - taxi quirks,\ncrew shuttles, parking. Notes are deliberately local: the editor says it\nin one line, \"Private to this device - never synced or shared.\"",[48,191],{"alt":192,"caption":193,"height":52,"src":194,"variant":54,"width":55},"The foot of the EGLL reference page: the Notes card with a No notes yet empty state inviting taxi quirks, crew shuttles and parking, an Add a note button, then the shortcut rows - METAR\u002FTAF for EGLL, Winds aloft, 30-day METAR history and Distance from here, each with a caption","Notes and the hand-offs: one tap to the field's weather, winds, history or distances.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fairports\u002Fairport-notes",[48,196],{"alt":197,"caption":198,"height":52,"src":199,"variant":54,"width":55},"The New note EGLL editor sheet over the reference page: a text field with Long taxi to 27L - crew shuttle leaves from Gate B typed, the line Private to this device - never synced or shared, Cancel and Save buttons, and the keyboard","The note editor - and its privacy line, which means exactly what it says.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fairports\u002Fairport-note-editor",[11,201,202,203,211,212,215,216,219,220,223,224,228],{},"The shortcut rows at the foot of the page hand off to the rest of the app:\nthe field's ",[15,204,205,206],{},"METAR\u002F",[131,207,210],{"href":208,"className":209},"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary#gt-taf",[135],"TAF",", ",[15,213,214],{},"winds aloft",", its ",[15,217,218],{},"30-day METAR history","\nand the ",[15,221,222],{},"distance tool"," pre-filled with this field -\n",[131,225,227],{"href":226},"\u002Fguide\u002Fweather","the Weather chapter"," covers what those screens hold and\nwhich sit in Pro.",[40,230,232],{"id":231},"nearby-airports","Nearby airports",[11,234,235,237],{},[15,236,232],{}," (from Home's weather cards, or the navigate icon on\nthe Airports page) takes one GPS fix and maps the medium and large fields\naround you, with a distance-ranked list beneath and a 25, 50 or 100 NM\nradius switch. In sparse regions it offers a wider 200 NM search rather\nthan pretending an empty list means empty sky; smaller fields and\nheliports are not shown, and the screen says so. The footer carries the\nmodule's data line: \"Airport data: bundled OurAirports dataset ·\nInformational only - not for navigation.\"",[48,239],{"alt":240,"caption":241,"height":52,"src":242,"variant":54,"width":55},"The Nearby airports screen near your location: a 25, 50 and 100 NM radius control set to 50, an Apple map of southeast England with airplane pins labelled EGGW London Luton, EGSS London Stansted, EGKK London Gatwick and others, and a distance list reading EGLL London Heathrow 0.1 NM 083 degrees, EGWU RAF Northolt 5.2 NM and EGLF Farnborough 16.6 NM, footed by Airport data: bundled OurAirports dataset, informational only, not for navigation","One GPS fix, the fields around you by distance - and the data line in the footer.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fairports\u002Fnearby",[11,244,245,246,249,250,253],{},"Tapping a field opens a preview with its runways and frequencies, a path\ninto the full reference page, and two practical actions: ",[15,247,248],{},"add it to your\nBrief",", or ",[15,251,252],{},"set it as your home base",".",[40,255,257],{"id":256},"browse-by-country","Browse by country",[11,259,260,262],{},[15,261,257],{}," is the no-search path through the database: every\ncountry with its airport count, filterable by type - Large, Medium, Small,\nHeliports, Seaplane - and drillable to the country's full list.",[48,264],{"alt":265,"caption":266,"height":52,"src":267,"variant":54,"width":55},"The Browse page, airports by country: type filter chips All, Large, Medium, Small, Heliports and Seaplane with All selected, a Filter countries search field, and country rows for Brazil 2,864 airports, United States 2,467, Australia 1,940, Chile 497, Germany 479 and Russia 465","The whole database by country - filter by type, drill into any country.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fairports\u002Fbrowse",[40,269,271],{"id":270},"favourites-and-groups","Favourites and groups",[11,273,109,274,277,278,281,282,285],{},[15,275,276],{},"star"," on a reference page saves the field; ",[15,279,280],{},"Saved"," (from the\nAirports page's \"Saved & collections\" card) lists your starred airports\nand your ",[15,283,284],{},"groups"," - named sets of fields you check together: home base\nand diverts, EU hubs, a training circuit.",[48,287],{"alt":288,"caption":289,"height":52,"src":290,"variant":54,"width":55},"The Saved page, groups and favourites: a Groups section with an EU hubs card reading 3 airports and EGLL, EHAM and LFPG chips, a Saved airports section with starred EGLL London 83 ft and EHAM Amsterdam -11 ft rows, and a plus button bottom right for a new group","Groups and starred fields in one place - the plus button starts a new group.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fairports\u002Fsaved",[11,292,293,294,297,298,301],{},"A group's page shows each member with its ",[15,295,296],{},"live METAR",", raw and\nverbatim, with a flight-rules badge and age pill - the same honest anatomy\nas the weather watch-list. ",[15,299,300],{},"Load into Brief"," turns the group into a\nbriefing in one tap: it replaces the current Brief selection with the\ngroup's members in order. A Brief holds up to 8 airports, and a larger\ngroup warns before anything is dropped.",[48,303],{"alt":304,"caption":305,"height":52,"src":306,"variant":54,"width":55},"The EU hubs group page, 3 airports: member cards for EGLL, EHAM and LFPG, each with a VMC badge, an age pill of a few minutes and its raw METAR verbatim - for example METAR EGLL 260850Z AUTO 10007KT 070V130 9999 NCD 22\u002F17 Q1013 - above Load into Brief and Add airport buttons","A group carries its members' live raw METARs - and loads into Brief in one tap.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fairports\u002Fcollection",[11,308,309],{},"Adding members takes one entry - the field accepts several codes at once,\nauto-hyphenating as you type (\"EGLL-EHAM-LFPG\"), and rejects the whole\nbatch with a named culprit rather than silently dropping an unreadable\ncode. There is no cap on groups and no gate anywhere in the module - the\nairport reference is part of the free tier.",[40,311,313],{"id":312},"in-the-station-workbench","In the station workbench",[11,315,316,317,319],{},"Every station on your weather watch-list carries this same reference as\nits ",[15,318,29],{}," tab - the first position on the workbench's segment strip,\none swipe away from the station's METAR, TAF and NOTAMs. Same cards, same\nattributions; its nearby-fields rows open each field's station view, so\nyou stay in the weather context you came from.",[48,321],{"alt":322,"caption":323,"height":52,"src":324,"variant":54,"width":55},"The EGLL station workbench on its Airport tab: the segment strip with Airport selected ahead of Summary, METAR and TAF, then the same reference cards - the EGLL identity card with scheduled service pill and favourite star, the timezone card with local time 10:10 and DST active, and the top of the Sun card","The same reference, embedded as every station's first tab.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fairports\u002Fstation-airport",[40,326,328],{"id":327},"airports-on-ipad","Airports on iPad",[11,330,331],{},"On iPad the browse and saved screens spread into a split view: the list on\none side, the full reference page on the other, so scanning a country's\nfields never loses the page you were reading.",[48,333],{"alt":334,"caption":335,"height":336,"src":337,"variant":338,"width":339},"The United Kingdom browse screen on iPad in split view: the 220-airport UK list on the left with type filter chips and rows like EGPD Aberdeen and EGKK London, and the full EGLL reference page on the right under an Airport reference header - the identity card with its scheduled service pill, the timezone card with DST active, and the sun card with sunrise 06:03, sunset 20:04 and the twilight table","Browse on iPad: the country's list beside the full reference page.",2752,"\u002Fguide-images\u002Fairports\u002Fairports-board-ipad","ipad",2064,[40,341,343],{"id":342},"where-next","Where next",[81,345,346,352,359],{},[84,347,348,351],{},[131,349,350],{"href":226},"Weather"," - the station workbench this reference lives\nin, and the METAR that feeds the crosswind matrix.",[84,353,354,358],{},[131,355,357],{"href":356},"\u002Fguide\u002Fnotams","NOTAMs"," - the field's notices, one tab over from the\nAirport segment.",[84,360,361,365],{},[131,362,364],{"href":363},"\u002Fguide\u002Ffree-vs-pro","Free vs Pro"," - where the airport reference sits:\nentirely on the free side.",{"title":367,"searchDepth":368,"depth":368,"links":369},"",2,[370,371,372,373,374,375,376,377,378,379,380],{"id":42,"depth":368,"text":43},{"id":70,"depth":368,"text":71},{"id":125,"depth":368,"text":126},{"id":170,"depth":368,"text":171},{"id":182,"depth":368,"text":183},{"id":231,"depth":368,"text":232},{"id":256,"depth":368,"text":257},{"id":270,"depth":368,"text":271},{"id":312,"depth":368,"text":313},{"id":327,"depth":368,"text":328},{"id":342,"depth":368,"text":343},"2026-08-26",null,"Look up any airport offline - 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searching, browsing, favourites, groups and notes are not gated or capped.",{},true,80,"\u002Fguide\u002Fairports","Core modules",{"title":5,"description":383},"guide\u002Fairports","XjowL3CEWe2Ol6Q_LylSxsxKiFzrP7EhJHCZQ4XM1to",{"prev":407,"next":412,"position":419,"total":420},{"path":356,"title":357,"description":408,"section":402,"order":409,"appVersion":6,"draft":384,"minutes":410,"number":411},"Read an airport's NOTAMs raw and decoded, watch a FIR's enroute notices, map them, and get alerted to new critical ones - gaps stated honestly.",70,6,"07",{"path":413,"title":414,"description":415,"section":402,"order":416,"appVersion":6,"draft":384,"minutes":417,"number":418},"\u002Fguide\u002Faviation-map","Aviation Map","One offline chart engine behind every map in the app - the route chart, its layers and airport peek, region packs, and a permanent Not for navigation badge.",90,7,"09",8,17,1787929982662]