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FAYP

Ysterplaat Air Force Base

Cape Town, South Africa

Elevation
52 ft
Runways
1
Longest
5,200 ft
Position
-33.900, 18.498
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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

0220N500 m
1 runway. Point at one for its dimensions.
North up, drawn to scale from published runway threshold positions.
FACTFAYPN
1 airfield in range. Point at one for its bearing.
  • FACT7
Rings at 15, 30 and 50 nm. 1 other airfield in range, at true bearing. Where two sit close together only the nearer one is labelled.

By the numbers

  • 5,200 ft

    Runway, all told

    0.9 nm of pavement across 1 runway

  • 35th

    Longest in South Africa

    of 61 airfields in the country

  • 3730th

    Longest in the world

    of 4,677 with a measured runway

  • 59th

    Highest in South Africa

    52 ft above sea level

  • 7 nm

    Nearest airfield

    FACT, bearing 130

  • Asphalt

    Surface

    Every runway lit

Current weather

METAR, live from NOAA aviation weather

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Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLit
02/205,200 ft75 ftAsphaltYes

Frequencies

  • GNDGND121.850
  • TWRTWR125.600
  • APPCAPE TOWN APP119.700

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 FAYP
  • FAYP to FACT, the nearest field

On the network

Nothing has been run at FAYP 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

  • FACTCape Town International Airport7 nm
  • FALWLangebaanweg Airport58 nm
  • FASDSaldanha/Vredenburg Airport62 nm
  • FARSRobertson Airport70 nm
  • FAVRVredendal Airport136 nm
  • FAOHOudtshoorn Airport185 nm

Elsewhere

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