United Kingdom · elevation 40 ft AMSL
· 59.3675, -2.4344
North Ronaldsay Airport is an airport with the ICAO code EGEN and the IATA code NRL. Country: United Kingdom. Nearest settlement listed in the database: North Ronaldsay. OurAirports classifies it as a small airport. Its ICAO code starts with the EG prefix, which marks airports in United Kingdom. The four-letter code EGEN is used in flight operations and weather reports, while the three-letter IATA code NRL is used for ticketing and baggage handling. The airport reference point sits at 59°22'03"N, 2°26'04"W, at an elevation of 40 ft (12 m) above sea level. The applicable time zone is Europe/London.
Aerial imagery showing the runway and apron layout - the zoom is matched to the longest runway.
| Threshold | Course | Length | Width | Surface |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 | 30° | 330 m (1,082 ft) | 48 m (159 ft) | unpaved |
| 21 | 210° | |||
| 10 | 100° | 527 m (1,729 ft) | 18 m (59 ft) | unpaved |
| 28 | 280° | |||
| 14 | 140° | 378 m (1,240 ft) | 30 m (98 ft) | grass |
| 32 | 320° |
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.
According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), North Ronaldsay Airport has 3 runways: 03/21 - 330 m long (1,082 ft), 48 m wide, unpaved surface; 10/28 - 527 m long (1,729 ft), 18 m wide, unpaved surface; 14/32 - 378 m long (1,240 ft), 30 m wide, grass surface.
The longest of them is 10/28, at 527 m.
The thresholds are oriented as follows: 03/21 on 30° and 210° magnetic, 10/28 on 100° and 280° magnetic, 14/32 on 140° and 320° 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 03/21 axis, wind from the south-east (around 120°) or from the north-west (around 300°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 30° or 210° acts along the runway, as a headwind or a tailwind. The decoder on this page computes those components automatically from the current METAR.
Weather reports for North Ronaldsay Airport are published under the ICAO code EGEN. 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 EGEN 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 EGEN, check the nearby airports listed below.
Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Europe/London zone is GMT+00:00 in winter and GMT+01:00 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 Sanday Airport (EGES, 15 km), Stronsay Airport (EGER, 26 km), Papa Westray Airport (Papa Westray, Orkney Islands) (EGEP, 26 km). When no report is available for EGEN, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.
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