PAPM Platinum

WIND_INFERRED 90%

Runway 14 — favored by the wind (10 kt at 120° 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: 90% evidence: WEAK no tower now

Wind 120° true at 10 kt · MVFR · 17 min old

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14 99% 5000 ft · 8 kt head, 6 kt x-left

32 <1% 5000 ft · 8 kt TAIL, 6 kt x-right

Why — evidence behind this answer

Runway 14

WIND 8 kt headwind, 6 kt left crosswind 17 min ago +1.61

Runway 32

WIND 8 kt TAILWIND, 6 kt right crosswind 17 min ago -10.88

Sources consulted

source	status	age	note
D_ATIS	UNAVAILABLE		No D-ATIS at this field
METAR	OK	17 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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PAPM field & runways

Platinum, Platinum, Alaska. Field elevation 18 ft. Non-towered (NON-ATCT). Magnetic variation 11.0°E on record, 9.2°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 0.257°/year west — about 1° every 4 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
14	154.8°	145.6°	runway 15 by the rule today · 5.6° past	5,000 ft	GRVL-DIRT	left
32	334.8°	325.6°	runway 33 by the rule today · 5.6° past	5,000 ft	GRVL-DIRT	left

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