| Kamisuku Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Kalima | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,831 ft / 558 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 2°33′20″S26°37′30″E / 2.55556°S 26.62500°E Coordinates: 2°33′20″S26°37′30″E / 2.55556°S 26.62500°E | ||||||||||
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  FZOC Location of the airport in Democratic Republic of the Congo | |||||||||||
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Kamisuku Airport( ICAO : FZOC) is an airport serving the town of Kalima in Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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.
Kalima is a town in Maniema Province, Congo. It is situated northeast of the provincial capital Kindu, between the Ulindi River and the Elila River, at an altitude of 2797 ft. The economic activity of Kalima and the surrounding area includes tin mining. In 2003 the town saw attacks by the Mai-Mai militias. Kalima has a hospital and is served by Kalima Airport.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as DR Congo, the DRC, DROC, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo, is a country located in Central Africa. It is sometimes anachronistically referred to by its former name of Zaire, which was its official name between 1971 and 1997. It is, by area, the largest country in Sub-Saharan Africa, the second-largest in all of Africa, and the 11th-largest in the world. With a population of over 78 million, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most populated officially Francophone country, the fourth-most-populated country in Africa, and the 16th-most-populated country in the world. Currently, eastern DR Congo is the scene of ongoing military conflict in Kivu, since 2015.
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The Kalima non-directional beacon (Ident: KAL) is located 7.7 nautical miles (14.3 km) east-southeast of the airport. [3]
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.
