KMCF Macdill AFB

WIND_INFERRED 90%

Runway 5 — favored by the wind (6 kt at 80° true)

Based on wind only — no traffic or ATIS to confirm. No D-ATIS feed here — a voice ATIS/AWOS may exist; check the frequency.

certainty: 90% evidence: NONE Class D

Wind 080° true at 6 kt · IFR · 27 min old · from KLAL (27.9 nm away)

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5 90% 11421 ft · 5 kt head, 4 kt x-right

23 10% 11421 ft · 5 kt TAIL, 4 kt x-left

Active NOTAMs affecting runways

SURFACE RWY 5/23 until 10-10 23:59Z

RWY 05/23 OBSERVED WET WITH LESS THAN 1/10 IN STANDING WATER

Why — evidence behind this answer

Runway 5

IMC_APCH IFR conditions and 5 has an instrument approach +1.30
WIND 5 kt headwind, 4 kt right crosswind 27 min ago +0.41

Runway 23

WIND 5 kt TAILWIND, 4 kt left crosswind 27 min ago -1.82
IMC_APCH IFR conditions and 23 has an instrument approach +1.30

Sources consulted

source	status	age	note
D_ATIS	UNAVAILABLE		No D-ATIS at this field
METAR	OK	27 min	Nearest station KLAL (27.9 nm away)
ADSB	OK	1 min	GOOD
NOTAM	OK
CIFP	NOT_CONFIGURED		Instrument procedures: phase 4

Recent operations

No operations observed in the last hour.

Was this right?

KMCF field & runways

Macdill AFB, Tampa, Florida. Field elevation 14 ft. Class D airspace. Towered. Private use. Magnetic variation 6.0°W on record, 6.2°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 0.08°/year west — about 1° every 12 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	Notes
23	220.3°	226.5°	matches	11,421 ft	ASPH	left	ILS
5	40.3°	46.5°	matches	11,421 ft	ASPH	left	ILS

What KMCF usually does

Of 96 operations this service has observed at KMCF since 2026-08-25:

5 69% 66 ops
23 31% 30 ops

Observed by this service only — not an FAA statistic, and biased toward the hours and days it has been watching. It is shown because it is the same history the engine learns its local-convention prior from.

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KMCF ☆ Macdill AFB