KDCM Chester Catawba Rgnl

WIND_INFERRED 80%

Runway 5 — favored by the wind (12 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. No ADS-B traffic data available.

certainty: 80% evidence: WEAK no tower now

Wind 040° true at 12 kt G20 · VFR · 11 min old · from KCLT (28.6 nm away)

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5 83% 4998 ft · 12 kt head, 3 kt x-left · right traffic

35 17% 5000 ft · 7 kt head, 9 kt x-right

17 <1% 5000 ft · 7 kt TAIL, 9 kt x-left · right traffic

23 <1% 4998 ft · 12 kt TAIL, 3 kt x-right

Why — evidence behind this answer

Runway 5

WIND 12 kt headwind, 3 kt left crosswind 11 min ago +3.42

Runway 35

WIND 7 kt headwind, 9 kt right crosswind 11 min ago +1.83

Runway 17

WIND 7 kt TAILWIND, 9 kt left crosswind 11 min ago -16.97

Runway 23

WIND 12 kt TAILWIND, 3 kt right crosswind 11 min ago -38.85

Sources consulted

source	status	age	note
D_ATIS	UNAVAILABLE		No D-ATIS at this field
METAR	OK	11 min	Nearest station KCLT (28.6 nm away)
ADSB	UNAVAILABLE		No ADS-B track history here yet
NOTAM	OK
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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KDCM field & runways

Chester Catawba Rgnl, Chester, South Carolina. Field elevation 657 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 0.041°/year west — about 1° every 24 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
17	168.1°	175.9°	runway 18 by the rule today · 5.9° past	5,000 ft	ASPH	right
23	234.4°	242.2°	runway 24 by the rule today · 12.2° past	4,998 ft	ASPH	left
35	348.1°	355.9°	runway 36 by the rule today · 5.9° past	5,000 ft	ASPH	left
5	54.5°	62.2°	runway 6 by the rule today · 12.2° past	4,998 ft	ASPH	right

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