Kalachevo airfield: description and activities

2024 Author: Harold Hamphrey | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:06

What is the Kalachevo airfield? Why is he good? We will consider these and other questions in the article. According to reliable information, an abandoned base for its maintenance is located near the airfield. From this we can conclude that earlier Kalachevo was a military air gate with its own history.

Description

Today, the Kalachevo airfield is a sports terminal of national aviation, which is located in the Chelyabinsk region in the Kopeysk urban district. It is part of the structure of the Chelyabinsk air hub. It is intended for the performance of flights, special aviation and aviation rescue operations, sports events in flight sports, parachute jumps. It is an auxiliary air hub of the Chelyabinsk terminal.

Kalachevo airfield is known to accept the following types of aircraft:

• helicopters of all types with a maximum takeoff weight of not more than 12,000 kg;
• aircraft of all types with the highest takeoff weight not exceeding 7000 kg.

Characteristics of the air hub

Kalachevo airfield is equipped with an airfield,made in the form of a rectangle, elongated from the northwest to the southeast. Its dimensions are 2000 x 700 m. The airfield has a flat surface covered with a grassy cover, which is a fragile turf. With the exception of the autumn-spring thaw, it is used all year round.

If precipitation falls to 10-12 mm, then unpaved taxiways and runways become unusable. The highest allowable reduced load on a conditional single-wheeled pair is 8 kg/cm².

Radio traffic is carried out on a frequency of 122.75 MHz, callsign "Gabriel".

Runways

Kalachevo air hub (Chelyabinsk) has three runways:

• main asph alt strip 13/31, 600 m long, 30 m wide, code PCN29/F/B/Y/T;
• additional unpaved 13D/31D 1800 m long and 60 m wide;
• spare unpaved 1800 m long and 30 m wide.

Geographical coordinates of the airfield: height 226 m, 54°57’17” N. latitude, 061°30’14” E e. The base operator of the air hub is the regional flying club of Chelyabinsk DOSAAF RF.

The airfield is also used by:

• regional flying club of Chelyabinsk "Kalachevo" (profile - parachute jumps and flight practice on SMA);
• ChelAvia airline (profile - ultra-small private aviation (SMA), flight training at SMA).

Flight training

In the air harbor of Kalachevo (Chelyabinsk), instructors teach amateur pilots to fly on board An-2 and Yak-52. Here are the people who have testimoniescommercial aviation pilot and amateur pilot, trying not to forget anything from the training, fly these types of aircraft. For beginners, they can offer parachute jumps from an AN-2 aircraft and familiarization flights.

How to get there?

How to get to the Kalachevo airfield in Chelyabinsk by car? Leave the city along the Troitsky tract. When you pass the flooded parks, you will see Lake Sineglazovo on the right side. Follow the signs: move until the turn to Etkul, which goes to the right onto the viaduct.

Here landmarks are signs "Oktyabrskoe", "Kurgan" and "Etkul". Then turn and drive up to the viaduct. Then move across the railroad straight to the bridge. On the pillar before the turn you will see the blue designation "Airfield Kalachevo". Turn right and enter the flying club.

You can also get to this terminal by public transport. In this case, you need to take any bus that will take you to Etkul. Buses run from the Northern bus station and from the regional hospital. The schedule of public transport can be found at the bus station. Next, ask the driver to make a stop near the Kalachevo air hub. The basic landmark of the stop is the blue sign “Kalachevo Airfield”, which we talked about above, and the poster on the pole with the note “Skydiving, flight training, aerobatic Yak-52.”

Fleet

Many people like to fly at the Kalachevo airfield in Chelyabinsk. ATthe air fleet of this air hub has the following aircraft:

• board Р2006 Twin (Italy, Tecnam);
• board P2002 Sierra (Italy, Tecnam);
• board Р92 Echo Super (Italy, Tecnam);
• turntable Eurocopter EC135 (Germany, Eurocoper);
• Robinson R-44 helicopter (USA, Robinson Helicopters).

Boris Vladimirovich Zavyalov is in charge of flights.

Chelyabinsk flying club

Visiting the Chelyabinsk flying club DOSAAF RF, you can make a parachute jump from a height of 800 m at a cost of 3,000 rubles. You can also be offered a jump with a coach from a height of 2.5 thousand meters with video and photography, which will cost you 6200 rubles.

On board the AN-2, the flight costs from 1,500 rubles, and on the Yak-52 - from 3,000 rubles. By the way, all aircraft in ChelAvia spend the night in hangars. For example, a Tecnam P2002 Sierra board can be delivered to the parking lot by one person on foot, since the car weighs only 335 kg. And the Tecnam P2006T board can already be pulled by several people, since its mass is 800 kg.

Program

Do you want to become a skydiver? An exemplary training program for skydivers in the Chelyabinsk flying club consists of a collection of three schemes:

1. Introductory skydiving.
2. Basic general training of skydivers.
3. Training skydivers.

With the help of this program, instructors train novice skydivers, pre-conscription youth for the RF Armed Forces by profession "parachutist" and members of patriotic,sports, military-patriotic organizations.