Big Trout Lake Airport, (ICAO CYTL, IATA YTL), is located 0.1 nautical miles (0.11 km) southwest of Big Trout Lake, Ontario, Canada. An IATA airport code, known by the IATA as an IATA location identifier or, simply, a location identifier [1], is a three-letter alphabetic code designating many airports around the world. ... The ICAO airport code is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ... The Province of Ontario is governed by a unicameral legislature, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, which operates in the Westminster system of government. ... The term above mean sea level (AMSL) refers to the elevation (on the ground) or altitude (in the air) of any object, relative to the average sea level. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which is aligned with the spin axis of the Earth. ... The ICAO airport code is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ... An IATA airport code, known by the IATA as an IATA location identifier or, simply, a location identifier [1], is a three-letter alphabetic code designating many airports around the world. ... A nautical mile is a unit of length. ...
Angling Lake/Wapekeka Airport, (ICAO CKB6, IATA N/A), is located 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 kilometers) west of the settlement of Angling Lake, Ontario, Canada, to the east of BigTroutLake.
The airport is operated by the Province of Ontario, and consists of a gravel runway with published instrument approaches.
The weather forecast for BigTroutLake, issued at 0500 CST, and obtained by the crew prior to departure, indicated that for their time of arrival, there would be an occasional sky condition of 3,000 feet overcast with visibility greater than six miles in light snow.
The airport is served by a non-directional beacon (NDB) located approximately 0.6 nautical miles (nm) west of the runway; the frequency of the NDB is 328 kilohertz (KHz), which was tuned to the aircraft's automatic direction-finder (ADF) radio.
On arrival at BigTroutLake, the captain communicated on the ATF with the crew of another company who were flying a right-hand visual approach to runway 14.