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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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Cooktown Airport to Cairns International Airport

Great circle distance
92nm
171 km
Track on departure
159°
heading south south east
Track on arrival
159°
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 kt1h 16m
  • Turboprop280 kt50 min
  • Narrow body450 kt42 min
  • Wide body490 kt41 min

Both ends

Halfway is 16.2°S 145.5°E, which on a long leg is further north than the map makes it look.

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