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Description
Airport Windhoek Eros
Location Indicator FYWE
Elevation 5594ft
Runways 01/19, 09/27
Length 01/19: 2000m 09/27: 1000m
From CBD 2.5nm SW
ATC Tower control
MSA 10,000 ft

Eros Airport is the busy hub of general aviation in Namibia. One of the busiest small airports in the SADC region. Eros is the host to commercial, private, and scheduled traffic ranging from high performance jet aircraft to Cessna 152 trainers. SADC may stand for: Southern African Development Community St Albans and District Council. ... Jet aircraft with condensation trail Jet aircraft are aircraft with jet engines. ... The Cessna 152 is a two-seat, fixed tricycle gear general aviation airplane, primarily used for flight training. ...


The airport handles approximately 150 to 200 movements per day (around 50 000 per year).


The majority of traffic comes from the general aviation charter market, consisting mainly of the Cessna 210 aircraft, which is the most commonly used aircraft for charter and fly-in safaris in Namibia. The Cessna 210 Centurion is a 6 seat, high-performance, single-engine general aviation aircraft which was first flown January 1957. ...


Eros is a alternate for Windhoek International Airport in VMC conditions. The largest passenger aircraft to land at Eros is the Boing 737 on a diversion from Windhoek International due to strong crosswinds and windshear. In aviation, visual meteorological conditions (or VMC) are those in which visual flight rules (VFR) flight is permitted—that is, conditions in which pilots have sufficient visibility to fly the aircraft without reference to instruments and can maintain visual separation from terrain and other aircraft. ...


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Windhoek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1267 words)
Windhoek has two airports: Eros on its outskirts for smaller craft, and Windhoek Hosea Kutako International Airport 42 km east of the city.
The airport is central Namibia's only international airport, and has one runway without capacity limitations.
This city airport handles around 12,000 individual flights a year, the majority of which are light aircraft.
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