London Gatwick International Airport
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| London Gatwick International
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| IATA: LGW - ICAO: EGKK | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type
| Public | ||
| Operator
| BAA Limited | ||
| Serves
| Crawley, West Sussex | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 202 ft (62 m) | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Website
| http://www.gatwickairport.com | ||
| Parts of this article may come from Wikipedia | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 08R/26L | 10,879 | 3,316 | Asphalt |
| 08L/26R CLOSED | 8,415 | 2,565 | Asphalt |
Contents |
General
London Gatwick International is London's second largest airport and the second busiest airport in the UK after Heathrow. It is also the busiest single runway airport, and 22nd busiest airport in the world in terms of passengers per year. It is located in Crawley, West Sussex, 28 miles south of London.
With about 200 destinations the airport handled over 34 million passengers with 263,363 aircraft movement in 2006. Charter airlines are generally not allowed to operate from Heathrow and many use Gatwick instead as their base. Many flights to and from the USA also use Gatwick because of restrictions on transatlantic operations from Heathrow. The airport is a hub for British Airways and Virgin Atlantic.
In 1979, when the last major expansion took place, an agreement was reached with the local council not to expand further before 2019, but recent proposals to build a second runway suitable for large jets at Gatwick led to protests about increased noise and pollution and demolition of houses and villages. The government has now decided to expand Stansted and Heathrow but not Gatwick. Gatwick's owners BAA have published a new consultation which includes a possible second runway south of the airport, but leaves the villages of Charlwood and Hookwood intact, north of the airport.
Gatwick has two runways but the northern runway 08L/26R is a non-instrument runway and is only used when 08R/26L is temporarily non-operational because of maintenance or an accident.
Both runways cannot be used at the same time because of insufficient separation between them. It can take up to 15 minutes to change over from one runway to the other.
The northern runway 08L/26R does not have an Instrument Landing System and aircraft need to use a combination of Distance Measuring Equipment, Non-directional beacons, and assistance from the airport approach controller using a surveillance radar.
Gate Assignment
MetroAir operates out of gate 54 in the North Terminal.
Flight Planning Resources
- Airport Diagram
- Airport Procedures - contains SID, STAR and IAP This site will require you to register.
IFR Routes
Pilots should add their IFR route plans originating from EGKK here as a central repository for their fellow pilots.
| Destination | Route | Suggested Altitude | Charts | Preferred | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KDTW | SAM UR37 MERLY UL22 ARDAM UN160 CRK UN533 BURAK UM140 DOGAL 5423N 5531N 5440N 5349N YAY J553 YYY J553 DICEN J568 YMX J553 YOW J546 YSO J597 YQO V464 SPICA2 | 38,000 Range: FL180-400 (even) | EGKK KDTW | 
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Available Sceneries
| FS version | pay-/freeware | developer | available updates |
|---|---|---|---|
| FS9 | payware | UK2000 - Gatwick Xtreme v1.1 | UK2000 - AFCAD update - april 2008 |
| FS9 | freeware | UK2000 - Gatwick Free | none |
| FSX | payware | UK2000 - Gatwick Xtreme v2.0 | UK2000 - AFCAD update - april 2008 |
| FSX | freeware | UK2000 - Gatwick Free | none |
