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Joel Bernstein joel at fysh.org
Tue May 14 17:04:56 BST 2013


Your estimates are wonky, the relevant distance is a (section of a) great
circle, not ATCF:
http://www.gcmap.com/dist?P=LHR-CPH,+BRS-ZRH
*From*  *To*  Initial
*Heading*  *Distance*  LHR <http://www.gcmap.com/airport/LHR> (51°28'39"N
0°27'41"W)CPH <http://www.gcmap.com/airport/CPH> (55°37'05"N 12°39'21"E)
56.9° (NE)610 miBRS <http://www.gcmap.com/airport/BRS> (51°22'58"N
2°43'09"W)ZRH <http://www.gcmap.com/airport/ZRH> (47°27'53"N 8°32'57"E)
113.7° (SE)575 mi
/joel


On 14 May 2013 17:56, Schmoo <schmooster at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 14 May 2013 16:40, Paul Johnson <paul at pjcj.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 03:54:07PM +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote:
> >> On 14 May 2013 15:20, Ben Vinnerd <ben at vinnerd.com> wrote:
> >> > On 14 May 2013 15:02, Dominic Humphries <djh at thermeon.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> 50 miles? Luxury! I have to do sixty! :)
> >> >>
> >> > Indeed. My previous contract was 223 miles, each way! (I became
> Travelodge
> >> > guest of the year during that gig!! lol)
> >>
> >> 223?
> >>
> >> Pah! my last contracting gig was 682 miles each way (Threemilestone,
> >> Cornwall to Groningen, Netherlands)
> >
> > I can just about better that with 707 miles (Zurich to Bristol) a few
> > years ago.
> >
> A colleague of mine travels to London (on a weekly basis) from
> Copenhagen, Denmark.
> He's been doing that for quite a few years now.
> He takes a flight, and that seems to be about 593 miles ATCF
> (estimating Zurich to Bristol as 574 miles ATCF).
>
> Gaz
>
>


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