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GCHIVDE

El Hierro Airport

El Hierro Island, Spain

Elevation
103 ft
Runways
1
Longest
4,101 ft
Position
27.815, -17.887
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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

1634N250 m
1 runway. Point at one for its dimensions.
North up, drawn to scale from published runway threshold positions.
GCLAGCHIN
1 airfield in range. Point at one for its bearing.
  • GCLA49
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

  • 4,101 ft

    Runway, all told

    0.7 nm of pavement across 1 runway

  • 52nd

    Longest in Spain

    of 52 airfields in the country

  • 4307th

    Longest in the world

    of 4,677 with a measured runway

  • 39th

    Highest in Spain

    103 ft above sea level

  • 49 nm

    Nearest airfield

    GCLA, bearing 008

  • Asphalt

    Surface

    Every runway lit

Current weather

METAR, live from NOAA aviation weather

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Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLit
16/344,101 ft98 ftAsphaltYes

Frequencies

  • GNDGND121.600
  • TWRTWR118.100
  • A/DCANARIAS APP126.100

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 GCHI
  • GCHI to GCLA, the nearest field

On the network

Nothing has been run at GCHI 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

  • GCLALa Palma Airport49 nm
  • GCTSTenerife Sur Airport71 nm
  • GCXOTenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna Airport91 nm
  • GCLPGran Canaria Airport133 nm
  • GCFVFuerteventura Airport216 nm
  • GCRRCésar Manrique-Lanzarote Airport236 nm

Elsewhere

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