D20 Yale

PROBABLE 60%

Runway 27 — 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 200° true at 5 kt · VFR · 22 min old · from KMTC (30.5 nm away)

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27 60% 2300 ft · 2 kt head, 5 kt x-left

9 40% 2300 ft · 2 kt TAIL, 5 kt x-right

Why — evidence behind this answer

Runway 27

WIND 2 kt headwind, 5 kt left crosswind 22 min ago +0.08

Runway 9

WIND 2 kt TAILWIND, 5 kt right crosswind 22 min ago -0.33

Sources consulted

source	status	age	note
D_ATIS	UNAVAILABLE		No D-ATIS at this field
METAR	OK	22 min	Nearest station KMTC (30.5 nm away)
ADSB	UNAVAILABLE		No ADS-B track history here yet
NOTAM	ERROR		NOTAM source unreachable
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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D20 field & runways

Yale, Yale, Michigan. Field elevation 815 ft. Non-towered (NON-ATCT). Magnetic variation 6.0°W on record, 7.8°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 0.005°/year east — about 1° every 200 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
27	268.0°	275.8°	runway 28 by the rule today · 5.8° past	2,300 ft	TURF	left
9	88.0°	95.8°	runway 10 by the rule today · 5.8° past	2,300 ft	TURF	left

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