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Old 23rd Jul 2016, 13:37
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And if the CAA was cruel enough to have the aircraft flying along a parallel of latitude, you would do the same calculation i.e. converting the longitude difference to minutes and multiplying by 60 AND THEN multiply the answer by the cosine of the latitude, to allow for the convergence of meridians (assuming that the earth is spherical and not an oblate spheroid).
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