PACD Cold Bay

WIND_INFERRED 70%

Runway 15 — favored by the wind (14 kt at 140° 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: 70% evidence: WEAK no tower now Class E

Wind 140° true at 14 kt · VFR · 20 min old

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15 74% 10179 ft · 13 kt head, 4 kt x-left

8 26% 4900 ft · 10 kt head, 10 kt x-right

26 <1% 4900 ft · 10 kt TAIL, 10 kt x-left · right traffic

33 <1% 10179 ft · 13 kt TAIL, 4 kt x-right · right traffic

Why — evidence behind this answer

Runway 15

WIND 13 kt headwind, 4 kt left crosswind 20 min ago +2.70
PRIOR runway length 10179 ft +0.07

Runway 8

WIND 10 kt headwind, 10 kt right crosswind 20 min ago +1.79
PRIOR runway length 4900 ft -0.07

Runway 26

WIND 10 kt TAILWIND, 10 kt left crosswind 20 min ago -14.93
PRIOR runway length 4900 ft -0.07

Runway 33

WIND 13 kt TAILWIND, 4 kt right crosswind 20 min ago -25.67
PRIOR runway length 10179 ft +0.07

Sources consulted

source	status	age	note
D_ATIS	UNAVAILABLE		No D-ATIS at this field
METAR	OK	20 min
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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PACD field & runways

Cold Bay, Cold Bay, Alaska. Field elevation 100 ft. Class E airspace. Non-towered (NON-ATCT). Magnetic variation 12.0°E on record, 8.9°E 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 0.217°/year west — about 1° every 5 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
15	158.4°	149.5°	matches	10,179 ft	ASPH	left	ILS
26	274.8°	265.8°	runway 27 by the rule today · 5.8° past	4,900 ft	ASPH	right
33	338.4°	329.5°	matches	10,179 ft	ASPH	right
8	94.8°	85.8°	runway 9 by the rule today · 5.8° past	4,900 ft	ASPH	left

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PACD ☆ Cold Bay