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0 pointsperilunar7y ago0 comments

Absolutely. It's a map of closest airport for any location on earth.

You could do different versions of this for different classes of plane (e.g. select a minimum runway length).

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This has a big influence on which routes a plane can fly. You can’t be more than a certain distance from a usable airport at any time during the flight to mitigate the risk of engine failure resulting in an off-airport landing/crash. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS

isostatic7y ago

And diversion airports of course vary with things like weather

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0 pointsperilunar7y ago0 comments

Absolutely. It's a map of closest airport for any location on earth.

You could do different versions of this for different classes of plane (e.g. select a minimum runway length).

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mikeash7y ago

isostatic7y ago

And diversion airports of course vary with things like weather

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