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Old 16th October 2005 | 08:09
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LGB
 
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Pengintai,

I am working on a similar project (to be implemented into a logbook), to calculate how much time is day and night time for a given flight (in case you are sleeping when the sun rises/sets!)

Some of the obstacles are your altitude, giving more day time, as well as the problem of position and time change at the same time. I have thought of a more simple solution where sunset/rise is calculated for departure and destination aerodrome, and then the average is taken. This will be highly inaccurate though, for certain flights.
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