Sable Island (CWSA)

Sable Island at a glance

Sable Island is a reporting station in Nova Scotia, Canada. The field elevation of 13 ft (4 m) is the number every arriving pilot dials against QNH — circuit heights and initial approach altitudes at CWSA are all figured from it. There is no scheduled airline service listed here — typical traffic is general aviation, training and local operations.

For the weather side of planning, the live METAR and TAF page for CWSA shows the current observation decoded line by line — wind on an instrument dial, visibility, cloud layers and the resulting flight rules — refreshed continuously from official sources.

About the CWSA station record

CWSA is carried here as a documented station record rather than a full airport entry: the reference data above was preserved from the station's original listing, and the identifier remains valid in weather archives and station registries. Records like this one matter more than they look — external references and historical citations point at exactly this page, and the elevation and coordinate figures they cite are kept unchanged at the same address.

For current conditions, the live METAR page for CWSA queries the US NWS Aviation Weather Center feed on every visit. Stations of this kind report irregularly — military and marine automated stations in particular publish on their own schedules — so an empty report is a normal state, not an error. The surrounding reporting airports on the weather hub give the regional picture whenever this station is silent.

If you are researching the station itself, the preserved figures are the authoritative ones: elevation as originally surveyed, coordinates in the degrees-minutes-seconds form the source listing used, and the station's identifiers exactly as they appear in archived reports. Where a figure was absent from the original record it is omitted here rather than estimated — a blank cell in the table above means the source never published that value, not that it was lost in transfer.

Flight-planning notes for Sable Island

Density altitude is the quiet performance-killer at any field: on a hot day the 13 ft field elevation of Sable Island can translate into a substantially higher density altitude, stretching take-off rolls and flattening climb rates — run the numbers rather than trusting the feel of a standard day.

The airports hub lists related stations and fields by country. Coordinates above are given in both DMS and decimal degrees so they can go straight into a GPS, a flight planner or a chart plot without conversion.

Where this data comes from

The reference layer behind this page builds on the OurAirports dataset — a public-domain, community-maintained register of the world's airports that many flight planners and apps rely on — with equity records preserved from documented historical listings where the dataset is silent. Figures are carried as published: elevations as surveyed, coordinates as filed, runway dimensions as recorded. Nothing is estimated to fill a gap, and the whole layer regenerates from source on every site build, so corrections upstream arrive here automatically.