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FALEDURMajor airport

King Shaka International Airport

Durban, South Africa

Elevation
295 ft
Runways
1
Longest
12,139 ft
Position
-29.614, 31.120
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Warning: pilot use only. For flight simulation use only. This information is not maintained to any aeronautical standard and must never be used for real world navigation or flight planning.

The field

0624N250 m
1 runway. Point at one for its dimensions.
North up, drawn to scale from published runway threshold positions.
FAVGFAPMFALEN
2 airfields in range. Point at one for its bearing.
  • FAVG10
  • FAPM38
Rings at 15, 30 and 50 nm. 2 other airfields in range, at true bearing. Where two sit close together only the nearer one is labelled.

By the numbers

  • 12,139 ft

    Runway, all told

    2.0 nm of pavement across 1 runway

  • 5th

    Longest in South Africa

    of 61 airfields in the country

  • 246th

    Longest in the world

    of 4,677 with a measured runway

  • 52nd

    Highest in South Africa

    295 ft above sea level

  • 10 nm

    Nearest airfield

    FAVG, bearing 199

  • Asphalt

    Surface

    No runway lighting recorded

Current weather

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Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLit
06/2412,139 ft197 ftAsphaltNo

Frequencies

  • DURBAN APPROACHNot named125.750
  • KING SHAKA ATISNot named127.000
  • KING SHAKA INT.KING SHAKA INT. Tower118.450
  • KING SHAKA INT.Not named121.650
  • VOT TGVNot named115.600

Real world frequencies, listed for reference. What is actually staffed on the network appears on the map and in the client.

Fly from here

  • Plan a leg out of FALE
  • FALE to FAVG, the nearest field

On the network

Nothing has been run at FALE yet. When an event uses this field it appears here, with what was flown and who worked it.

What is on the calendar

Nearby airfields

  • FAVGVirginia Airport10 nm
  • FAPMPietermaritzburg Airport38 nm
  • FARBRichards Bay Airport73 nm
  • FAULPrince Mangosuthu Buthelezi Airport79 nm
  • FAMGMargate Airport85 nm
  • FALYLadysmith Airport95 nm

Elsewhere

  • Wikipedia

Airport, runway and frequency data from OurAirports, which is public domain. Weather from NOAA aviation weather.