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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.

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GCLAGCHI

La Palma Airport to El Hierro Airport

Great circle distance
49nm
91 km
Track on departure
188°
heading south
Track on arrival
188°
the same heading the whole 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 kt55 min
  • Turboprop280 kt41 min
  • Narrow body450 kt37 min
  • Wide body490 kt36 min

Both ends

  • La Palma AirportGCLA · SPC · SpainLongest runway 36/18, 7,218 ft · elevation 107 ft
  • El Hierro AirportGCHI · VDE · SpainLongest runway 16/34, 4,101 ft · elevation 103 ft

Halfway is 28.2°N 17.8°W, which on a long leg is further north than the map makes it look.

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