Nadirgul Airport
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Nadirgul is a small airstrip, 12nm South-East of Hyderabad located on the Nagarjuna Sagar Highway. Nadirgul airstrip is just about 3000' long and 75' wide. This airfield has been serving primarily the needs of the aspiring trainee pilots in Hyderabad. As of now Andhra Pradesh Flying Club(APFC), Flytech Aviation Academy and Rajiv Gandhi Aviation Academy(RGAA) are using this field to train pilots. Flytech Aviation has setup its own hangar in this field.
Nadirgul has no instrument approach procedure laid as there are no radio navigational equipment installed. Nadirgul is classified to VMC conditions and no night landing facilities like REIL, REL, ALS, Taxiway lights, PAPI and VASI etc are installed. The runway orientation is 10-28 paved surface. Interestingly, Nadirgul has an unpaved runway RW10R-RW28L parallel to the paved(and main)runway. The runway is slightly inclined towards RW28(RW28 is 1804' and RW10 is 1790'). Local surface winds favor the use of RW28 till the late August and RW10 till the late February. Though not designated(and maintained) as a runway, a specific portion of the airfield is left as a cross-runway(RW14-RW32 they call). Though not often used, the primary idea is to facilitate any emergency landings, if needed during the training flights(trainees mostly fly single engine planes like Cessna 152 and Cessna 172). The circuit altitude is 2600' and the pattern is South of the field as North of Nadirgul is residential area. For all practical purposes, METAR and TAFOR issued for Hyderabad airport are used. Also, there is no specific ATC here, but the trainees usually does the needful.
Nadirgul has been witnessing the growth of many a number of aspiring Indian pilots. This is the only field in India, which is shared by three different flying schools. Given the meteorological conditions that favor training flights, no wonder if Nadirgul is busier than the Hyderabad Airport. However, the continuation of this field is in a doubt with the new airport coming up in Shamshabad(the circuit pattern of nadirgul will be critically close to the Approach path of RW27 of new airport).
[[ Nadirgul]]
Tower : 123.250 MHz
Lattitude : 17* 18' 21" N
Longitude : 078* 33' 38" E
Elevation : 1811'
Position : R-148 HHY VOR at 12nm
[[ Runway Length Width surface]]
10L 3000' 75' Paved
28R 3000' 75' Paved
10R 3000' 75' Un-paved
28L 3000' 75' Un-paved
