Nsoko Airport (FDNS)

Runways at FDNS

According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Nsoko Airport has one runway: 03/21 - 1,210 m long (3,970 ft), 18 m wide, unpaved surface.

Runway headings and wind

The thresholds are oriented as follows: 03/21 on 30° and 210° 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 03/21 axis, wind from the south-east (around 120°) or from the north-west (around 300°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 30° or 210° 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 FDNS

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

Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Africa/Johannesburg 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 Matata Airport (Big Bend) (FDBM, 13 km), Ingwavuma Airport (FAIV, 16 km), Big Bend Sugar E Airport (FDBS, 17 km). When no report is available for FDNS, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.