KSSI St Simons Island

PROBABLE 60%

Runway 34 — 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. ADS-B tracking just started here — traffic history is still building.

certainty: 60% evidence: WEAK no tower now Class E

Wind 360° true at 10 kt G18 · VFR · 18 min old

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34 56% 3313 ft · 9 kt head, 4 kt x-right

4 44% 5584 ft · 8 kt head, 6 kt x-left

22 <1% 5584 ft · 8 kt TAIL, 6 kt x-right

16 <1% 3313 ft · 9 kt TAIL, 4 kt x-left

Active NOTAMs affecting runways

APCH OTS until 12-11 23:00Z

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Why — evidence behind this answer

Runway 34

WIND 9 kt headwind, 4 kt right crosswind 18 min ago +2.55
PRIOR runway length 3313 ft -0.05

Runway 4

WIND 8 kt headwind, 6 kt left crosswind 18 min ago +2.20
PRIOR runway length 5584 ft +0.05

Runway 22

WIND 8 kt TAILWIND, 6 kt right crosswind 18 min ago -20.89
PRIOR runway length 5584 ft +0.05

Runway 16

WIND 9 kt TAILWIND, 4 kt left crosswind 18 min ago -25.43
PRIOR runway length 3313 ft -0.05

Sources consulted

source	status	age	note
D_ATIS	UNAVAILABLE		No D-ATIS at this field
METAR	OK	18 min
ADSB	WARMING_UP	3757 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)

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KSSI field & runways

St Simons Island, St Simons Island, Georgia. Field elevation 19 ft. Class E airspace. Non-towered (NON-ATCT). Magnetic variation 5.0°W on record, 7.2°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 0.061°/year west — about 1° every 16 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
16	154.2°	161.5°	matches rule gives runway 17 in ~57 yr	3,313 ft	ASPH	left
22	216.0°	223.2°	matches rule gives runway 23 in ~29 yr	5,584 ft	ASPH	left
34	334.2°	341.5°	matches rule gives runway 35 in ~57 yr	3,313 ft	ASPH	left
4	36.0°	43.2°	matches rule gives runway 5 in ~29 yr	5,584 ft	ASPH	left

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KSSI ☆ St Simons Island