UUWW – Vnukovo International Airport

Tier B (estimated) · 429 movements in 2026 · NM-inferred milestones, no capture metrics

Coverage here is judged on estimated reference times. What can be said firmly is whether flights were seen at all: 75.6% of movements in 2026 are picked up. Across its departures, essentially none of the taxi-out reached the network: this aerodrome is invisible on the ground even though its flights are seen in the air. There is no arrival figure, so this page carries no coverage index.

period departures arrivals Departures seen (%) Arrivals seen (%) Coverage index
2026 209 220 75.6% 88.2%
2025 206 218 67.5% 71.1%
2024 171 185 83.6% 91.9%

Departures

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

Distribution of off_s. Zero is take-off. 396 movement(s) fall outside +/-30 min and are excluded from the plot (2026: 0 below / 156 above, 2025: 0 below / 117 above, 2024: 0 below / 123 above). They are included in every percentile below.

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

period n p10 p50 p90
2026 158 +94.4 +126.1 +233.5
2025 139 +25.9 +88.6 +191.3
2024 143 +16.7 +72.2 +143.2
delta 2026-2025 +68.5 +37.5 +42.2

Arrivals

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

Distribution of land_s. Zero is landing. 403 movement(s) fall outside +/-30 min and are excluded from the plot (2026: 181 below / 0 above, 2025: 74 below / 0 above, 2024: 148 below / 0 above). They are included in every percentile below.

When the track ends, relative to landing (minutes)

period n p10 p50 p90
2026 194 -159.3 -103.8 -31.5
2025 155 -179.5 -29.6 -9.6
2024 170 -135.8 -38.8 -28.3
delta 2026-2025 +20.2 -74.2 -21.9

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.

Nothing here was received on the ground. Every report drawn was made in the air, below 1,500 ft, so the map shows the approach and the climb-out and stops where the surface begins. Use the legend to switch off layers or any example flights. Scroll to zoom.

Example flights are shown only where a movement’s ground phase can be bounded, so its coverage can be ranked. No movement here has one.

The tier decides what can be measured.

Tier A (measured by APDF). The airport’s own records give the real times: off-block, take-off, landing, in-block. The taxi has exact bounds, so how much of it arrived is a measurement.

Tier B (estimated by NM). Network Manager gives an off-block time and a predicted taxi duration – an estimate, not a measured one. With no runway times, take-off is inferred, so only a median across a few hundred movements is worth reading.

There is no in-block time either, so nothing ends a taxi-in; NM’s arrival time is off-block plus predicted taxi plus predicted flight duration, adding nothing. Tier B therefore gets no arrival coverage, and the coverage index needs both sides.

The all-aerodromes table holds both, its taxi-out column filled throughout and asterisked where the window was measured.

Against the fleet

How this aerodrome compares with the aerodromes with estimated 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)
Departures seen (%) 75.6% 99.8% 3
Arrivals seen (%) 88.2% 99.7% 11
Track start vs take-off (min, median) +126.1 +1.0 99
Track end vs landing (min, median) -103.8 +4.0 1

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 47.8% 27.8% 0.0%
2026 arrivals 45.5% 42.7% 0.0%
2025 departures 62.6% 4.9% 0.0%
2025 arrivals 66.5% 4.6% 0.0%
2024 departures 68.4% 15.2% 0.0%
2024 arrivals 78.4% 13.5% 0.0%

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 209 158 220 194 0 18.0
2025 206 139 218 155 0 18.0
2024 171 143 185 170 0 0.0

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