Al Badie Airport (Dhula') (OYBA)

Yemen · elevation 908 ft AMSL · 18.7207, 50.8358 · Local time: --:--:-- · UTC time: --:--:--

About Al Badie Airport (Dhula')

Al Badie Airport (Dhula') is an airport with the ICAO code OYBA. Country: Yemen. Nearest settlement listed in the database: Dhula'. OurAirports classifies it as a small airport. Its ICAO code starts with the OY prefix, which marks airports in Yemen. No IATA code is assigned, which is typical for airports without scheduled traffic. The airport reference point sits at 18°43'15"N, 50°50'09"E, at an elevation of 908 ft (277 m) above sea level. The applicable time zone is Asia/Aden.

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Runways of OYBA

ThresholdCourseLengthWidthSurface
0660°3,036 m (9,962 ft)45 m (148 ft)asphalt
24240°

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.

Runways at OYBA

According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Al Badie Airport (Dhula') has one runway: 06/24 - 3,036 m long (9,962 ft), 45 m wide, asphalt surface.

Runway headings and wind

The thresholds are oriented as follows: 06/24 on 60° and 240° 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 06/24 axis, wind from the south-east (around 150°) or from the north-west (around 330°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 60° or 240° 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 OYBA

Weather reports for Al Badie Airport (Dhula') are published under the ICAO code OYBA. 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 OYBA 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 OYBA, check the nearby airports listed below.

Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Asia/Aden 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 Umm Al Melh Border Guards Airport (OEOM, 86 km), Al Ghaydah International Airport (OYGD, 315 km), Thablotin Airport (Thabhloten) (OEBN, 357 km). When no report is available for OYBA, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.

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