Ruacana Airport | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Ruacana | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 3,765 ft / 1,148 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 17°25′20″S14°22′30″E / 17.42222°S 14.37500°E Coordinates: 17°25′20″S14°22′30″E / 17.42222°S 14.37500°E | ||||||||||||||
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  FYRC Location of the airport in Namibia | |||||||||||||||
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Ruacana Airport( ICAO : FYRC) is an airport serving Ruacana and the Ruacana hydroelectric power station in the Omusati Region of Namibia.
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.
Ruacana is a town in Omusati Region, northern Namibia and the district capital of the Ruacana electoral constituency. It is located on the border with Angola on the river Kunene. The town is known for the picturesque Ruacana Falls nearby, and for the Ruacana Power Station.
The Ruacana Power Station is a hydroelectric power plant near Ruacana in northwest Namibia, close to the Angolan border. Water for the power station is stored in a dam just above the Ruacana Falls along the Cunene River in Angola. Several dams upstream help regulate the Cunene River to help the power station operate more efficiently. The Calueque Dam in Calueque, Angola is under construction. Further up is the Gove Dam in west-central Angola and the Olushandja Dam, on the tributary, Etaka River, is in Namibia. The power station is located underground near the bottom of the falls and has an installed capacity of 330 megawatts (440,000 hp).
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The Ruacana non-directional beacon (Ident: RC) is on the field. [3] [4] [5]
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.
