Sulkaharju Airfield (Veteli) (EFVT)

Runways at EFVT

According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Sulkaharju Airfield (Veteli) has one runway: 08/26 - 740 m long (2,427 ft), 19 m wide, unpaved surface.

Runway headings and wind

The thresholds are oriented as follows: 08/26 on 80° and 260° 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 08/26 axis, wind from the south (around 170°) or from the north (around 350°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 80° or 260° 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 EFVT

Weather reports for Sulkaharju Airfield (Veteli) are published under the ICAO code EFVT. 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 EFVT 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 EFVT, check the nearby airports listed below.

Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Europe/Helsinki zone is GMT+02:00 in winter and GMT+03:00 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 Menkijärvi Airfield (Alajärvi) (EFME, 56 km), Kokkola-Pietarsaari Airport (Kokkola / Kruunupyy) (EFKK, 57 km), Kauhava Airfield (EFKA, 57 km). When no report is available for EFVT, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.