Departure
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MY FS FLIGHTS
MY FS FLIGHTS
Borj El Arab International Airport (HEBA) serves Alexandria in Egypt from a site on the low coastal plain west of the city, offering a single very long runway with no instrument landing system. Its principal draw for a simulator pilot is the sheer length of that runway, at nearly 9,900 feet, making it a straightforward VFR destination in the region.
Borj El Arab International Airport, identified as HEBA, is located in the Alexandria Governorate of Egypt. The field is built around a single, exceptionally long runway of just under 9,900 feet, and it has no instrument landing system, so arrivals and departures are conducted visually or under radar guidance from approach control. For a simulator pilot, the airport's chief point of interest is the scale of its runway relative to the relatively modest traffic the field otherwise suggests.
The airport sits at coordinates 30.9181 north, 29.6958 east, at a field elevation of 151 feet, on the coastal plain near Alexandria in northern Egypt. It falls under the control of an approach service, with traffic worked by radar before being handed to the tower.
The airport has a single physical runway, aligned 14R/32L, measuring 9,884 feet in length with a hard surface and runway lighting along its full length. There is no ILS installed on this runway.
Traffic is worked by approach control, identified as Alex Radar, on 122.3 MHz and also on 122.8 MHz, with the tower operating on 119.1 MHz. No published navaids or instrument approach procedures are associated with the field.
