Al Taji Army Air Field (ORTI)

Runways at ORTI

According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Al Taji Army Air Field has one runway: 16/34 - 1,759 m long (5,770 ft), 50 m wide, asphalt surface.

Runway headings and wind

The thresholds are oriented as follows: 16/34 on 160° and 340° 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 16/34 axis, wind from the west (around 250°) or from the east (around 70°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 160° or 340° 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 ORTI

Weather reports for Al Taji Army Air Field are published under the ICAO code ORTI. 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 ORTI 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 ORTI, check the nearby airports listed below.

Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Asia/Baghdad zone stays at GMT+03:00 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 Qasr Tall Mihl Airport (Baghdad) (ORQT, 24 km), Baghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air Base (ORBI, 29 km), Balad Southeast Airport / Joint Base Balad (Al Bakr) (ORBD, 47 km). When no report is available for ORTI, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.