| El Alba Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Melipilla, Chile | ||||||||||
| Location | La Lumbrera | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 450 ft / 137 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°39′31″S71°17′25″W / 33.65861°S 71.29028°W Coordinates: 33°39′31″S71°17′25″W / 33.65861°S 71.29028°W | ||||||||||
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  SCAB Location of El Alba Airport in Chile | |||||||||||
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El Alba Airport (Spanish : Aeropuerto El Alba), ( ICAO : SCAB) is an airport 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) northwest of Melipilla, a city in the Santiago Metropolitan Region of Chile.
Spanish or Castilian is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in the Americas and Spain. It is a global language and the world's second-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese.
The ICAOairport code or location indicator is a four-letter code designating aerodromes around the world. These codes, as defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization and published in ICAO Document 7910: Location Indicators, are used by air traffic control and airline operations such as flight planning.
Melipilla is a Chilean commune and capital city of the province of the same name, located in the Santiago Metropolitan Region southwest of the nation's capital. The commune spans an area of 1,344.8 km2 (519 sq mi).
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There are hills southeast of the runway. The Melipilla non-directional beacon (Ident: PIL) is located 3.5 nautical miles (6.5 km) east-southeast of the airport. [4]
A non-directional (radio) beacon (NDB) is a radio transmitter at a known location, used as an aviation or marine navigational aid. As the name implies, the signal transmitted does not include inherent directional information, in contrast to other navigational aids such as low frequency radio range, VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) and TACAN. NDB signals follow the curvature of the Earth, so they can be received at much greater distances at lower altitudes, a major advantage over VOR. However, NDB signals are also affected more by atmospheric conditions, mountainous terrain, coastal refraction and electrical storms, particularly at long range.
