Plan a leg

Two idents. The distance, the track to steer as you leave, the cruise levels the semicircular rule offers, and roughly how long it takes in the sort of aircraft people fly here. No winds, because there is no wind model behind this and pretending otherwise would be worse than saying so. If you would rather be told where to go, say so below and it will pick something.

Find me a route

Answer as much or as little as you like. It will not offer you a leg the aeroplane cannot make, a runway it cannot get into, or a destination the airline has never flown to.

EGLCEGPH

London City Airport to Edinburgh Airport

Great circle distance
293nm
543 km
Track on departure
337°
heading north north west
Track on arrival
334°
3° of drift along the way
Cruise levels
FL300
Westbound, so even levels
The solid line is the route. The faint one is the straight line on this projection, which is longer to fly and is what people expect the route to be.

Roughly how long

Still air, plus half an hour for the climb, the descent and the taxi at both ends. A real day is longer or shorter by whatever the wind is doing.

  • Light single120 kt2h 57m
  • Turboprop280 kt1h 33m
  • Narrow body450 kt1h 09m
  • Wide body490 kt1h 06m

Both ends

  • London City AirportEGLC · LCY · United KingdomLongest runway 09/27, 4,948 ft · elevation 19 ft
  • Edinburgh AirportEGPH · EDI · United KingdomLongest runway 06/24, 8,392 ft · elevation 135 ft

Halfway is 53.7°N 1.6°W, which on a long leg is further north than the map makes it look.

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