51G Alkay

PROBABLE 68%

Runway 18 — wind slightly favors it, low confidence

Based mostly on wind; no traffic or ATIS to confirm. No D-ATIS feed here — a voice ATIS/AWOS may exist; check the frequency. ADS-B tracking just started here — traffic history is still building.

certainty: 68% evidence: WEAK no tower now

Wind 220° true at 7 kt · VFR · 7 min old · from KHYX (17.6 nm away)

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18 66% 1800 ft · 5 kt head, 5 kt x-right

14 23% 1895 ft · 1 kt head, 7 kt x-right

32 11% 1895 ft · 1 kt TAIL, 7 kt x-left

36 <1% 1800 ft · 5 kt TAIL, 5 kt x-left

Why — evidence behind this answer

Runway 18

WIND 5 kt headwind, 5 kt right crosswind 7 min ago +1.09

Runway 14

WIND 1 kt headwind, 7 kt right crosswind 7 min ago +0.04

Runway 32

WIND 1 kt TAILWIND, 7 kt left crosswind 7 min ago -0.73

Runway 36

WIND 5 kt TAILWIND, 5 kt left crosswind 7 min ago -5.37

Sources consulted

source	status	age	note
D_ATIS	UNAVAILABLE		No D-ATIS at this field
METAR	OK	7 min	Nearest station KHYX (17.6 nm away)
ADSB	WARMING_UP	4339 min	Only 0 min of track history so far
NOTAM	OK
CIFP	NOT_CONFIGURED		Instrument procedures: phase 4

Recent operations

No operations observed in the last hour. (Only 0 min of track history so far)

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51G field & runways

Alkay, Clio, Michigan. Field elevation 714 ft. Non-towered (NON-ATCT). Magnetic variation 6.0°W on record, 7.1°W today.

The FAA's variation of record is the number this field was surveyed against; the second is where north points now, from WMM2025. It is moving 0.001°/year west — about 1° every 1000 years — which is why runway numbers eventually stop matching their pavement.

Runway data from the FAA NASR 01 Oct 2026 cycle. Where NASR locates both thresholds, the true heading is the bearing between them rather than NASR's whole-degree alignment. Magnetic is that heading against *today's* declination from WMM2025, not the field's variation of record — so it can differ from the chart by the gap between the two shown above. The number painted on the runway is the one ATC uses.
Runway	True	Magnetic	Number	Length	Surface	Pattern
14	139.9°	147.0°	runway 15 by the rule today · 7.0° past	1,895 ft	TURF	left
18	179.0°	186.1°	runway 19 by the rule today · 6.1° past	1,800 ft	TURF	left
32	319.9°	327.0°	runway 33 by the rule today · 7.0° past	1,895 ft	TURF	left
36	359.0°	6.1°	runway 1 by the rule today · 6.1° past	1,800 ft	TURF	left

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