Juan Enrique Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Paine, Chile | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,263 ft / 385 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°53′35″S70°53′07″W / 33.89306°S 70.88528°W Coordinates: 33°53′35″S70°53′07″W / 33.89306°S 70.88528°W | ||||||||||
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  SCAU Location of Juan Enrique Airport in Chile | |||||||||||
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Juan Enrique Airport Spanish : Aeropuerto de Juan Enrique, ( ICAO : SCAU) is an airport 16 kilometres (10 mi) west-southwest of Paine, a city in the Santiago Metropolitan Region of Chile.
Spanish or Castilian is a 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.
Paine is a Chilean city, forming part of Greater Santiago, and a commune in the Maipo Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region.
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The airport is on an alluvial slope running north from mountain peaks to the south. Mountainous ridges run from the south to both east and west of the runway.
The Talagante non-directional beacon (Ident: TAL) is located 12.9 nautical miles (23.9 km) north 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.
