Runways at FDBT
According to the infobox on the English Wikipedia, Tambuti Airport (Big Bend) has one runway: 15/33 - 800 m long (2,625 ft), grass surface.
All runways have a grass surface, which distinguishes this site from airports with a paved runway.
No OurAirports data is available for this airport, so the figures above come from Wikipedia - a community-edited source that can be out of date. The infobox also gives no runway width. Treat these numbers as indicative and check the current AIP before flying.
Runway headings and wind
The thresholds are oriented as follows: 15/33 on 150° and 330° 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 15/33 axis, wind from the south-west (around 240°) or from the north-east (around 60°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 150° or 330° 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 FDBT
Weather reports for Tambuti Airport (Big Bend) are published under the ICAO code FDBT. 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 FDBT 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 FDBT, check the nearby airports listed below.
Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Africa/Mbabane zone stays at GMT+02:00 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 Ubombo Ranches Airport (Big Bend) (FDUB, 16 km), Big Bend Sugar E Airport (FDBS, 18 km), Matata Airport (Big Bend) (FDBM, 21 km). When no report is available for FDBT, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.
