Ursel Air Base (EBUL)

Runways at EBUL

According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Ursel Air Base has one runway: 07/25 - 2,980 m long (9,777 ft), 45 m wide, asphalt surface.

Runway headings and wind

The thresholds are oriented as follows: 07/25 on 70° and 250° 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 07/25 axis, wind from the south (around 160°) or from the north (around 340°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 70° or 250° 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 EBUL

Weather reports for Ursel Air Base are published under the ICAO code EBUL. 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 EBUL 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 EBUL, check the nearby airports listed below.

Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Europe/Brussels zone is GMT+01:00 in winter and GMT+02:00 in summer - that is the shift to apply to the time in the report to get local time at the airport.

The closest airports in the database, measured in a straight line from the reference point, are Ghent/Industry Zone Heliport (Gent) (EBGT, 22 km), Zuienkerke Sport Aviation Airfield (EBZU, 26 km), KNMI Weather Station (Vlissingen) (EHFS, 34 km). When no report is available for EBUL, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.