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.

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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.

PAEDPAMR

Elmendorf Air Force Base to Merrill Field

Great circle distance
3nm
5 km
Track on departure
205°
heading south south west
Track on arrival
205°
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 kt31 min
  • Turboprop280 kt31 min
  • Narrow body450 kt30 min
  • Wide body490 kt30 min

Both ends

  • Elmendorf Air Force BasePAED · EDF · United StatesLongest runway 06/24, 10,000 ft · elevation 212 ft
  • Merrill FieldPAMR · MRI · United StatesLongest runway 08/26, 4,000 ft · elevation 137 ft

Halfway is 61.2°N 149.8°W, which on a long leg is further north than the map makes it look.

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