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Old 25th Jun 2001, 22:54
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Noddy Staltern
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Engineer,

A Crit Point (CP) is another name for the Equal Time Point (ETP). The answer given above for CP distance is therefore the ETP distance from departure. If you divide this distance by the groundspeed (outbound), you get the time to the ETP/CP.