El Ingeniero
Level 2 Member
Want to go around the world in world record time, on miles/points:
A circumnavigation crossing the equator must be made. It is not necessary to visit the exact antipodal points, but airports nearest them. For this record an allowance of 5° is permitted, so if the co-ordinates north and south are the same, the east plus that west equals 180°, then that north might be, for example, 45° and that south anything between 40° and 50°. Alternatively that north might be 51° and that south 53°, in which case that west plus that east can equal between 177° and 183°. Being in a plane which lands at the airport but not having to changes would not be acceptable.
Route for current best time was PVG-AKL-EZE-AMS-PVG. No longer possible to replicate as PVG-AKL-EZE gives you a very long stopover in AKL, and Air New Zealand has the only non-stops. PVG and EZE are nearly antipodes, great circle route for EZE-LHR goes very close to the antipode for AKL just off the Iberian peninsula.
*antipodal means exact opposite points on the planet
- route west to east
- no more than 4 legs
- total distance 22,859 miles or longer
- begins and ends at the same airport
- route stays within 5 degrees of the antipodes
- less than 52 hours, 34 minutes total time, from wheels leaving the ground to wheels touching down
A circumnavigation crossing the equator must be made. It is not necessary to visit the exact antipodal points, but airports nearest them. For this record an allowance of 5° is permitted, so if the co-ordinates north and south are the same, the east plus that west equals 180°, then that north might be, for example, 45° and that south anything between 40° and 50°. Alternatively that north might be 51° and that south 53°, in which case that west plus that east can equal between 177° and 183°. Being in a plane which lands at the airport but not having to changes would not be acceptable.
Route for current best time was PVG-AKL-EZE-AMS-PVG. No longer possible to replicate as PVG-AKL-EZE gives you a very long stopover in AKL, and Air New Zealand has the only non-stops. PVG and EZE are nearly antipodes, great circle route for EZE-LHR goes very close to the antipode for AKL just off the Iberian peninsula.
*antipodal means exact opposite points on the planet
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