The Pas Airport (CYQD / YQD)

Canada · elevation 887 ft AMSL · 53.9714, -101.0910 · Local time: --:--:-- · UTC time: --:--:--

About The Pas Airport

The Pas Airport is an airport with the ICAO code CYQD and the IATA code YQD. Country: Canada. Nearest settlement listed in the database: The Pas. OurAirports classifies it as a medium-sized airport. Its ICAO code starts with the CY prefix, which marks airports in Canada. The four-letter code CYQD is used in flight operations and weather reports, while the three-letter IATA code YQD is used for ticketing and baggage handling. The airport reference point sits at 53°58'17"N, 101°05'28"W, at an elevation of 887 ft (270 m) above sea level. The applicable time zone is America/Winnipeg.

Satellite view of CYQD

Aerial imagery showing the runway and apron layout - the zoom is matched to the longest runway.

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Runways of CYQD

Threshold	Course	Length	Width	Surface
13	130°	1,799 m (5,901 ft)	46 m (150 ft)	asphalt
31	310°	1,799 m (5,901 ft)	46 m (150 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 CYQD

According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), The Pas Airport has one runway: 13/31 - 1,799 m long (5,901 ft), 46 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 CYQD

Weather reports for The Pas Airport are published under the ICAO code CYQD. 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 CYQD 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 CYQD, check the nearby airports listed below.

Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The America/Winnipeg zone is GMT-06:00 in winter and GMT-05:00 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 Flin Flon Airport (CYFO, 87 km), Hudson Bay Airport (CYHB, 152 km), Pukatawagan Airport (CZFG, 198 km). When no report is available for CYQD, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.

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