1R8 Bay Minette Muni

WIND_INFERRED 90%

Runway 8 — favored by the wind (13 kt at 40° 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. ADS-B tracking just started here — traffic history is still building.

certainty: 90% evidence: WEAK no tower now

Wind 040° true at 13 kt · VFR · 22 min old · from KBFM (19.8 nm away)

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8 99% 5500 ft · 9 kt head, 9 kt x-left

26 <1% 5500 ft · 9 kt TAIL, 9 kt x-right

Why — evidence behind this answer

Runway 8

WIND 9 kt headwind, 9 kt left crosswind 22 min ago +1.62

Runway 26

WIND 9 kt TAILWIND, 9 kt right crosswind 22 min ago -12.62

Sources consulted

source	status	age	note
D_ATIS	UNAVAILABLE		No D-ATIS at this field
METAR	OK	22 min	Nearest station KBFM (19.8 nm away)
ADSB	WARMING_UP	499 min	Only 0 min of track history so far
NOTAM	OK
CIFP	NOT_CONFIGURED		Instrument procedures: phase 4

Recent operations

No operations observed in the last hour. (Only 0 min of track history so far)

Was this right?

1R8 field & runways

Bay Minette Muni, Bay Minette, Alabama. Field elevation 248 ft. Non-towered (NON-ATCT). Magnetic variation 0.0°W on record, 3.1°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 0.076°/year west — about 1° every 13 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
26	265.8°	268.9°	runway 27 by the rule today · 8.9° past	5,500 ft	ASPH	left
8	85.8°	88.9°	runway 9 by the rule today · 8.9° past	5,500 ft	ASPH	left

What 1R8 usually does

Of 169 operations this service has observed at 1R8 since 2026-08-25:

8 96% 162 ops
26 4% 7 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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1R8 ☆ Bay Minette Muni