Comments for the World @ OurAirports

(no subject)

🔗 Tue, 01 Mar 2022
— @radix at Pista do Arrepiado, Portugal

I landed there a few years ago but nowadays it is harder to spot the southeast limit and you really have to use it if you want to stop before the first road crossing because the ground is a bit uneven there.

Good condition

🔗 Tue, 01 Mar 2022
— @radix at Rebocho, Portugal

The trees feel a bit too close if you're doing a low pass but at landing speeds, coming in from East, it's perfectly safe.

Formerly an airport

🔗 Mon, 28 Feb 2022
— @david at CFB Borden Heliport, Canada

According to Wikipedia, the runways were closed in 2004, and only a helipad remains.

Weeds

🔗 Sun, 27 Feb 2022
— @PapaOscar at Pista da Herdade da Comporta, Portugal

High weeds but smooth surface below. Beautiful area.

re: Not yet visible in satellite imagery (2020-08-28)

🔗 Sat, 26 Feb 2022
— @david at Saint Helena Airport, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

Reply to @david: It is visible now.

Russian invasion

🔗 Fri, 25 Feb 2022
— @david at Hostomel Airport, Ukraine

«Russia’s military claimed Friday afternoon that its forces had staged a “successful landing operation” to capture Hostomel airfield on Kyiv’s outskirts, viewed as strategically important.»

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/24/europe/ukraine-russia-invasion-friday-intl-hnk/index.html

Ukrainian missile strike

🔗 Fri, 25 Feb 2022
— @david at Millerovo Air Base, Russia

«Ukrainian forces earlier today claimed to have hit an airfield in Millerovo in Rostov, southern Russia, destroying at least one of Moscow's Su-30SM fighter jets.

«Footage posted online purported to show the tail end of a missile strike on the Russian military's airbase around 10am local time (8am GMT) with several buildings on the site engulfed in flames.»

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10550799/Ukraine-hits-airfield-Russia-missile-strike-blow-Putin-downing-six-helicopters.html

Russian missile strike

🔗 Fri, 25 Feb 2022
— @david at Ivano-Frankivsk International Airport, Ukraine

«A harrowing video appears to show a Russian missile hitting Ivano-Frankivsk airport in western Ukraine.

«Smoke can be seen billowing from the building after the strike, which also created a large bang as the missile smashed into its target.»

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/ukraine-invasion-missile-hits-ivano-frankivsk-airport-amid-russian-attack/ar-AAUfvKQ

From Milan MXP and to Bukhara

🔗 Fri, 25 Feb 2022
— @Adler47 at Urgench Airport, Uzbekistan

Small airport

HY 256 - MXP-UGC 4141 km

HY 052 9:35-10:30 382 km

re: From Milan MXP

🔗 Fri, 25 Feb 2022
— @Adler47 at Urgench Airport, Uzbekistan

Reply to @Adler47:

From Milan MXP

🔗 Fri, 25 Feb 2022
— @Adler47 at Urgench Airport, Uzbekistan

Small airport

The graveyard of the Atlantic

🔗 Thu, 24 Feb 2022
— @david at Sable Island Airport., Canada

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/sable-island-shipwrecks-at-the-graveyard-of-the-atlantic-1.2755063

Occupied

🔗 Thu, 24 Feb 2022
— @david at Sevastopol International Airport / Belbek Air Base, Ukraine

Under Russian occupation (as of 2022-02-24).

Occupied

🔗 Thu, 24 Feb 2022
— @david at Sevastopol Kozachya Bay Aerodrome / Khersones Air Base, Ukraine

Currently under Russian occupation (as of 2022-02-24)

re: Database on github

🔗 Thu, 24 Feb 2022
— @david at Kumköy Blue Sky Airport, Turkey

Reply to @Gatelli: There was a pause because of a git conflict, but that's fixed now, and it's updating nightly again.

re: Mistake in the airport position

🔗 Wed, 23 Feb 2022
— @david at Bohicon/Cana Airport, Benin

Now correct.

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🔗 Wed, 23 Feb 2022
— @PapaOscar at Herdade do Pontal Airstrip UL, Portugal

Herdade do Pontal is a private runway with very little activity. It has more or less 8 ultralights based there.

The runway is in very good condition. There are obstacles on both ends of the runway, but the runway is long enough so is not a factor.

The beginning of the runway has a downslope, transitioning into an upslope.

Heliport coverage by the FAA

🔗 Tue, 22 Feb 2022
— @animebirder at Sun Drilling Products Heliport, United States

... is NOTORIOUSLY bad. Even heliports that have continually existed for the last forty years are routinely given GPS coordinates up to 10 miles off course.