LZIB – M. R. Štefánik Airport

Tier A (measured) · 337 movements in 2026 · milestones measured from APDF

Excellent coverage. Nearly every movement in 2026 is picked up, and 85% of the position reports expected while taxiing out actually arrive. Roughly half to most of each ground movement is received — usable, but with gaps that will show in any surface event derived from it.

period departures arrivals Departures seen (%) Arrivals seen (%) Coverage index
2026 167 170 100.0% 100.0% 0.924
2025 105 105 98.1% 99.0% 0.867
2024 98 100 95.9% 97.0% 0.886

Departures

off_s is good when negative – the track began before take-off.

Distribution of off_s. Zero is take-off. 23 movement(s) fall outside +/-30 min and are excluded from the plot (2026: 7 below / 3 above, 2025: 6 below / 1 above, 2024: 6 below / 0 above). They are included in every percentile below.

When the track starts, relative to take-off (minutes)

period n p10 p50 p90
2026 167 -13.8 -8.7 -3.2
2025 103 -12.1 -6.8 -2.0
2024 94 -12.8 -7.7 -1.1
delta 2026-2025 -1.7 -1.8 -1.2

How much of the taxi-out was observed, across all movements. The dashed line is every aerodrome pooled; a curve to the right of it is better, because more of this aerodrome’s movements were well observed.

How much of the taxi-out was received (1.00 = every expected report arrived)

period n p10 p50 p90
2026 167 0.361 0.848 1.000
2025 103 0.270 0.758 0.965
2024 94 0.250 0.837 1.000
delta 2026-2025 0.091 0.090 0.035

Arrivals

land_s is good when positive – the track ran on past landing.

Distribution of land_s. Zero is landing. 30 movement(s) fall outside +/-30 min and are excluded from the plot (2026: 2 below / 12 above, 2025: 1 below / 10 above, 2024: 0 below / 5 above). They are included in every percentile below.

When the track ends, relative to landing (minutes)

period n p10 p50 p90
2026 170 +6.9 +9.0 +13.3
2025 104 +7.1 +9.1 +19.3
2024 97 +6.9 +9.1 +11.8
delta 2026-2025 -0.1 -0.1 -6.0

How much of the taxi-in was observed, across all movements. The dashed line is every aerodrome pooled; a curve to the right of it is better, because more of this aerodrome’s movements were well observed.

How much of the taxi-in was received (1.00 = every expected report arrived)

period n p10 p50 p90
2026 169 1.000 1.000 1.000
2025 103 1.000 1.000 1.000
2024 96 0.993 1.000 1.000
delta 2026-2025 0.000 0.000 0.000

Where the coverage is

Each position report is placed on a hexagonal grid over the aerodrome, on a log colour scale: one apron cell can hold thousands of reports while a runway threshold holds tens. Empty ground is surface the receivers do not reach.

Use the legend to add the airborne layer and any example flights. Scroll to zoom.

Against the fleet

How this aerodrome compares with the 89 aerodromes with measured milestones. Typical aerodrome is the median across all of them. Rank is this aerodrome’s position among them, 0 (lowest) to 100 (highest).

measure this aerodrome typical aerodrome rank (0–100)
Coverage index 0.924 0.590 71
Departures seen (%) 100.0% 99.7% 75
Taxi-out received (median) 0.848 0.191 70
Taxi-in received (median) 1.000 1.000 43
Track start vs take-off (min, median) -8.7 -1.8 22
Track end vs landing (min, median) +9.0 +7.2 66

Higher rank is better everywhere except track start vs take-off, where a low value is the good case.

Was each flight tracked as one flight?

A poor coverage number can mean the receivers heard nothing, or that the algorithm cut the flight’s track up. This separates them.

period One flight, one track (%) Split across tracks (%) Merged with another flight (%)
2026 departures 91.6% 6.6% 1.8%
2026 arrivals 91.2% 6.5% 2.4%
2025 departures 88.6% 3.8% 5.7%
2025 arrivals 90.5% 2.9% 5.7%
2024 departures 86.7% 6.1% 3.1%
2024 arrivals 90.0% 4.0% 3.0%

The underlying counts

Everything above is derived from these. Typical taxi times are context: the same 200 seconds of reception is most of a short taxi and a fraction of a long one.

period Departures Departures seen Arrivals Arrivals seen Unusable reference rows Typical taxi-out (min) Typical taxi-in (min)
2026 167 167 170 170 0 10.0 4.0
2025 105 103 105 104 0 10.0 4.0
2024 98 94 100 97 0 9.0 5.0

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