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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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Birchwood Airport to Wasilla Airport

Great circle distance
9nm
17 km
Track on departure
354°
heading north
Track on arrival
354°
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 kt35 min
  • Turboprop280 kt32 min
  • Narrow body450 kt31 min
  • Wide body490 kt31 min

Both ends

  • Birchwood AirportPABV · United StatesLongest runway 02L/20R, 4,012 ft · elevation 83 ft
  • Wasilla AirportPAWS · WWA · United StatesLongest runway 04/22, 3,700 ft · elevation 354 ft

Halfway is 61.5°N 149.5°W, which on a long leg is further north than the map makes it look.

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