EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg

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EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg
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IATA: BSL/MLH/EAP ICAO: LFSB (LSZM)
Type Public
Owner Several
City Saint-Louis, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France
website
Runways
Runway Length Material
15/33 3900 m Concrete
26/08 1820 m Concrete
15R/33L 630 m Grass


Description

EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg (D: Flughafen Basel-Mülhausen-Freiburg; F: Aéroport de Bâle-Mulhouse Fribourg), also known as EuroAirport or simply Basel-Mulhouse is the international airport that servers the city of Basel (CH), Mulhouse (F) and Freiburg (D). It's 6Km (3.7mi) North-west of Basel, 30Km (18Mi) South-east of Mulhouse and 77Km (47mi) South-west of Freiburg.

Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg is the only developed airport in FlightGear that is operated by 3 countries (Switzerland, France and Germany), hence the name "EuroAirport". The Airport lies completely in French soil (with public transport connections from Switzerland operated by SBB [Swiss Federal Railworks] and a local Bus line from Basel), but the airport is categorized as a Swiss airport. The reason why is because it used to be the former Swissair's Hub until 2001, after it's bankruptcy . Currently, the only Real airline with a Hub in Basel-Mulhouse is EasyJet Switzerland.

Because of the EuroAirport being binationality, it has 3 IATA's: BSL (The Swiss code for Basel), MLH (The French code for Mulhouse) and EAP (international code for EuroAirport). This airport has a similar state to Geneva's Airport, excluding the multiple IATAs. Its ICAO code is LFSB.

Navigation

PLEASE NOTICE: The in-game navigation data IS WRONG (except radio frequencies). Please read this article fully or see the charts (link below).

Also, the runways are mistaken. 16 is 15 and 34 is 33, but when selecting an airport, this are shown.

Start-up

Since there is no park positions set, we ask you to start at LFSB in runway 34L. If you have a small 1 Propeller engine plane, you can start up as well on 15R. Then push back to a gate of choice on Terminal 1 (the only one). After that, you can ask the tower for start up and other normal procedures.

LFSB has "6" runways, tough only 4 are used (as cited above). The grass runways are MERELY for Start-up, they're too short for landing.

Runway 15/33

ILS cat IIIb runway approach and landing is available for runway 15 with SSALR - PAPI-4L lights. This is the main landing runway (GS=3.00°).

Tune your navigation radio 1 to 111.55MHz with a heading of 153° (MH).

ILS cat I/DME runway approach and landing is available for runway 33 with SSALR - PAPI-4L lights. This is mainly used for take-off's in low traffic situations, but in case of bad weather, can be used to land as well (GS=3.50°). Reason? BEWARE: Terrain on area (the Jura mountains), maintain at least FL050.

Tune your navigation radio 1 to 109.35MHz with a heading of 333° (IBLU) and your navigation radio 2 to DME 117.45 (BLM). Use the charts for approach (see below).

Runway 08/26

ILS runway approach and landing is NOT available for runway 08. No landings are made on runway 08, because it has only Calvert lightning. Used for small planes take-off only.

ILS runway approach and landing is NOT available for runway 26. This runway is mainly used for landings for small planes. In case of intense traffic it can be used for take-off's as well. Do a manual approach, Calvert - PAPI-4L lights available.

ATC

ATC tower is served weekly, mostly at Saturday and Sunday, and sometimes at Friday. You can book a flight and check when is the controller online here. ATC serviced provided by LFSB-Tower.

Tune your radio to 118.30MHz. For ATIS, tune to 127.87MHz. For more frequencies, look bellow.


See also

Suggested Airports

See future upcoming ATC events

External links

Arriving and departing LFSB

Charts

Any other information