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mjcentreline

28th Mar 2007, 14:53

Hi there

Our sales dept are looking for an online resource to help in finding out semi-accurate distance readings in nautical miles to assess whether our aircraft can reach particular destinations..

Does anybody know of one we can use? It's more to help the sales people quantify journeys, cuz ops can find our info in JetPlanner.

Icarus

28th Mar 2007, 15:15

More than semi-accurate:

http://gc.kls2.com/

merlinxx

29th Mar 2007, 07:05

Just get them a Jetplanner access ID for dist calcs only, check with Alteon House.

mabrodb

30th Mar 2007, 02:06

take g/c mileage, Plus 3%, should be good for adhoc WAGS.
cheers,
Marc

TopBunk

30th Mar 2007, 08:24

I agree with Icarus but another option is MS Encarta Reference>Geography>World Atlas and use the Distance Measurement tool.

This will give you answers in km or sm but not nm (although the conversion is obviously very straight forward. A bonus is that you can get distances other than Great Circle by having straight line segments.