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.

KSMOKLAX

Santa Monica Municipal Airport to Los Angeles International Airport

Great circle distance
5nm
9 km
Track on departure
154°
heading south south east
Track on arrival
154°
the same heading the whole way
Cruise levels
FL290
Eastbound, so odd 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 kt32 min
  • Turboprop280 kt31 min
  • Narrow body450 kt31 min
  • Wide body490 kt31 min

Both ends

Halfway is 34.0°N 118.4°W, which on a long leg is further north than the map makes it look.

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