Menongue Airport (FNME / SPP)

Angola · elevation 4469 ft AMSL · -14.6576, 17.7198 · Local time: --:--:-- · UTC time: --:--:--

About Menongue Airport

Menongue Airport is an airport with the ICAO code FNME and the IATA code SPP. Country: Angola. Nearest settlement listed in the database: Menongue. OurAirports classifies it as a medium-sized airport. Its ICAO code starts with the FN prefix, which marks airports in Angola. The four-letter code FNME is used in flight operations and weather reports, while the three-letter IATA code SPP is used for ticketing and baggage handling. The airport reference point sits at 14°39'27"S, 17°43'11"E, at an elevation of 4,469 ft (1,362 m) above sea level. The applicable time zone is Africa/Luanda.

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Runways of FNME

Threshold	Course	Length	Width	Surface
13	130°	3,500 m (11,483 ft)	45 m (147 ft)	asphalt
31	310°	3,500 m (11,483 ft)	45 m (147 ft)	asphalt

The course is derived from the runway designator (number × 10), not from a survey - the actual magnetic bearing can differ by a few degrees.

Declared distances (TORA, TODA, ASDA, LDA) are published in the national AIP - they are not part of this table.

Runways at FNME

According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Menongue Airport has one runway: 13/31 - 3,500 m long (11,483 ft), 45 m wide, asphalt surface.

Runway headings and wind

The thresholds are oriented as follows: 13/31 on 130° and 310° magnetic. A threshold designator is its magnetic heading divided by ten (ICAO Annex 14), so the runway axis can be read straight off the numbers.

For the 13/31 axis, wind from the south-west (around 220°) or from the north-east (around 40°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 130° or 310° acts along the runway, as a headwind or a tailwind. The decoder on this page computes those components automatically from the current METAR.

METAR and TAF for FNME

Weather reports for Menongue Airport are published under the ICAO code FNME. A METAR is an observation of current conditions, usually issued every 30 or 60 minutes; a TAF is a forecast for the airport area, typically covering 9 to 30 hours.

The decoder breaks the FNME report down into its parts: wind direction and speed including gusts and variability, visibility (including CAVOK and directional minimum visibility), weather phenomena by WMO code, cloud layers with their bases, temperature and dew point, QNH pressure, and the resulting flight category - VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR - using FAA thresholds.

Not every airport issues its own reports; many smaller airfields have no weather station. If no current data is available for FNME, check the nearby airports listed below.

Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Africa/Luanda zone stays at GMT+01:00 year-round, so converting to local time is always the same shift.

The closest airports in the database, measured in a straight line from the reference point, are Cuito Cuanavale Airport (FNCV, 164 km), Jamba Airport (FNJM, 178 km), Tchamutete Airport (Techamutete) (FNTE, 189 km). When no report is available for FNME, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.

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