Lisala Airport (FZGA / LIQ)

Runways at FZGA

According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Lisala Airport has one runway: 05/23 - 2,195 m long (7,200 ft), 50 m wide, unpaved surface.

Runway headings and wind

The thresholds are oriented as follows: 05/23 on 50° and 230° 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 05/23 axis, wind from the south-east (around 140°) or from the north-west (around 320°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 50° or 230° 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 FZGA

Weather reports for Lisala Airport are published under the ICAO code FZGA. 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 FZGA 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 FZGA, check the nearby airports listed below.

Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Africa/Kinshasa 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 Bumba Airport (FZFU, 109 km), Binga Airport (FZGE, 111 km), Engengele Airport (FZFC, 128 km). When no report is available for FZGA, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.