Skip to content
SKYHIGH NETWORK
  • Airports
  • Events
  • News
  • Training
  • Community
DiscordSign in
  • Airports
  • Events
  • News
  • Training
  • Community
DiscordSign in

SKYHIGH NETWORK

A free virtual airspace built and run by its members. Fly real routes, work real positions, and learn on frequency from people who have done both.

All systems operational

Fly

  • Airports
  • Plan a leg
  • The map

Network

  • Events
  • Network news
  • Training
  • Operational status
  • Start flying now

Help

  • The community
  • Help and support
  • Report a bug
  • Suggest something
  • Discord

Legal

  • User Agreement
  • Code of Conduct
  • Privacy Notice

SKYHIGH ------Z NETWORK ONLINE ALL SYSTEMS NORMAL

© 2026 SkyHigh Network. A hobbyist network, not affiliated with any real world aviation authority.

Join us on Discord
All airports
SBGLGIGMajor airport

Rio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Elevation
28 ft
Runways
2
Longest
13,123 ft
Position
-22.810, -43.251
!

Warning: pilot use only. For flight simulation use only. This information is not maintained to any aeronautical standard and must never be used for real world navigation or flight planning.

The field

10281533N2 km
2 runways. Point at one for its dimensions.
North up, drawn to scale from published runway threshold positions.
SBRJSBAFSBJRSBGLN
3 airfields in range. Point at one for its bearing.
  • SBRJ8
  • SBAF8
  • SBJR13
Rings at 15, 30 and 50 nm. 3 other airfields in range, at true bearing. Where two sit close together only the nearer one is labelled.

By the numbers

  • 23,556 ft

    Runway, all told

    3.9 nm of pavement across 2 runways

  • 1st

    Longest in Brazil

    of 120 airfields in the country

  • 118th

    Longest in the world

    of 4,677 with a measured runway

  • 109th

    Highest in Brazil

    28 ft above sea level

  • 8 nm

    Nearest airfield

    SBRJ, bearing 141

  • Concrete, Asphalt

    Surface

    Every runway lit

Current weather

METAR, live from NOAA aviation weather

Fetching the latest report...

Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLit
10/2813,123 ft148 ftConcreteYes
15/3310,433 ft154 ftAsphaltYes

Frequencies

  • ATISATIS127.600
  • CLDCLNC DEL121.000
  • GNDGND121.650
  • TWRTWR118.000
  • APPRIO APP119.350
  • OPSOPS122.500

Real world frequencies, listed for reference. What is actually staffed on the network appears on the map and in the client.

Fly from here

  • Plan a leg out of SBGL
  • SBGL to SBRJ, the nearest field

On the network

Nothing has been run at SBGL yet. When an event uses this field it appears here, with what was flown and who worked it.

What is on the calendar

Nearby airfields

  • SBRJSantos Dumont Airport8 nm
  • SBAFCampo Délio Jardim de Mattos Airport8 nm
  • SBJRJacarepaguá - Roberto Marinho Airport13 nm
  • SBJFFrancisco de Assis Airport62 nm
  • SBZMPresidente Itamar Franco Airport78 nm
  • SBMEMacaé Benedito Lacerda Airport87 nm

Elsewhere

  • Airport website
  • Wikipedia
  • Airport, runway and frequency data from OurAirports, which is public domain. Weather from NOAA aviation weather.