Ambala Air Force Station (VIAM)

Runways at VIAM

According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Ambala Air Force Station has one runway: 12L/30R - 2,811 m long (9,224 ft), 46 m wide, asphalt surface.

Runway headings and wind

The thresholds are oriented as follows: 12L/30R 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 12L/30R 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 VIAM

Weather reports for Ambala Air Force Station are published under the ICAO code VIAM. 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 VIAM 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 VIAM, check the nearby airports listed below.

Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Asia/Kolkata zone stays at GMT+05:30 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 Shaheed Bhagat Singh International Airport (Chandigarh) (VICG, 34 km), Patiala Airport (VIPL, 44 km), Sarsawa Air Force Station (Sherpur Naqeebpur) (VISP, 72 km). When no report is available for VIAM, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.