Lague Airport (FCBL / LCO)

Republic of the Congo · elevation 2756 ft AMSL · -2.4500, 14.5330 · Local time: --:--:-- · UTC time: --:--:--

About Lague Airport

Lague Airport is an airport with the ICAO code FCBL and the IATA code LCO. Country: Republic of the Congo. Nearest settlement listed in the database: Lague. OurAirports classifies it as a small airport. Its ICAO code starts with the FC prefix, which marks airports in Republic of the Congo. The four-letter code FCBL is used in flight operations and weather reports, while the three-letter IATA code LCO is used for ticketing and baggage handling. The airport reference point sits at 2°27'00"S, 14°31'59"E, at an elevation of 2,756 ft (840 m) above sea level. The applicable time zone is Africa/Brazzaville.

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Runways of FCBL

ThresholdCourseLengthWidthSurface
11110°1,250 m (4,101 ft)no datagrass
29290°

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: Lague Airport

Runways at FCBL

According to the infobox on the English Wikipedia, Lague Airport has one runway: 11/29 - 1,250 m long (4,101 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data is available for this airport, so the figures above come from Wikipedia - a community-edited source that can be out of date.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: 11/29 on 110° and 290° 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 11/29 axis, wind from the south (around 200°) or from the north (around 20°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 110° or 290° 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 FCBL

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

Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Africa/Brazzaville 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 Djambala Airport (FCBD, 26 km), Zanaga Airport (FCBZ, 91 km), Kindamba Airport (FCBK, 145 km). When no report is available for FCBL, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.

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