Moabi Airport (FOGI / MGX)

Gabon · elevation 787 ft AMSL · -2.4552, 10.9358 · Local time: --:--:-- · UTC time: --:--:--

About Moabi Airport

Moabi Airport is an airport with the ICAO code FOGI and the IATA code MGX. Country: Gabon. Nearest settlement listed in the database: Moabi. OurAirports classifies it as a small airport. Its ICAO code starts with the FO prefix, which marks airports in Gabon. The four-letter code FOGI is used in flight operations and weather reports, while the three-letter IATA code MGX is used for ticketing and baggage handling. The airport reference point sits at 2°27'19"S, 10°56'09"E, at an elevation of 787 ft (240 m) above sea level. The applicable time zone is Africa/Libreville.

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Runways of FOGI

ThresholdCourseLengthWidthSurface
12120°1,100 m (3,609 ft)no datagrass
30300°

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.

Wikipedia: Moabi Airport

Runways at FOGI

According to the infobox on the English Wikipedia, Moabi Airport has one runway: 12/30 - 1,100 m long (3,609 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data is available for this airport, so the figures above come from Wikipedia - a community-edited source that can be out of date.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: 12/30 on 120° and 300° 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 12/30 axis, wind from the south-west (around 210°) or from the north-east (around 30°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 120° or 300° 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 FOGI

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

Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Africa/Libreville 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 Tchibanga Airport (FOOT, 48 km), Ndende Airport (FOGE, 48 km), Mouilla Ville Airport (Mouila) (FOGM, 69 km). When no report is available for FOGI, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.

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