PAFS Nikolai

PROBABLE 60%

Runway 5 — 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. No ADS-B traffic data available.

certainty: 60% evidence: NONE no tower now

Wind 080° true at 3 kt · MVFR · 39 min old

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5 60% 4001 ft · 3 kt head, 1 kt x-right

23 40% 4001 ft · 3 kt TAIL, 1 kt x-left

Active NOTAMs affecting runways

LIGHTING RWY 5 until 10-24 15:00Z

RWY 05 PAPI U/S

Why — evidence behind this answer

Runway 5

WIND 3 kt headwind, 1 kt right crosswind 39 min ago +0.10

Runway 23

WIND 3 kt TAILWIND, 1 kt left crosswind 39 min ago -0.30

Sources consulted

source	status	age	note
D_ATIS	UNAVAILABLE		No D-ATIS at this field
METAR	OK	39 min
ADSB	UNAVAILABLE		No ADS-B track history here yet
NOTAM	OK
CIFP	NOT_CONFIGURED		Instrument procedures: phase 4

Recent operations

No operations observed in the last hour. (No ADS-B track history here yet)

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PAFS field & runways

Nikolai, Nikolai, Alaska. Field elevation 447 ft. Non-towered (NON-ATCT). Magnetic variation 14.0°E on record, 12.2°E 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 0.312°/year west — about 1° every 3 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	243.3°	231.1°	matches rule gives runway 24 in ~13 yr	4,001 ft	GRAVEL	left
5	63.3°	51.1°	matches rule gives runway 6 in ~13 yr	4,001 ft	GRAVEL	left

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PAFS ☆ Nikolai