"When we fly from London Heathrow to Vancouver assuming we use the great circle, how far north does it get?"
Ah, now calculating a great circle is easy. I used this for a rough and ready answer, complete with pretty picture. It's approx 4111 nautical miles if you're interested.
Calculating the most northerly point was a bit more trial and error. To save myself brain ache I simply put in latitude and longitude from the previous programme (LHR = 51°28'39"N 00°27'41"W, YVR= 49°11'38"N 123°11'04"W into this programme and asked for a waypoint 'half' way round, ie at 061°W. OK, not terribly scientific but the approx answer is 68° 40' North.
I'm sure there are far more clever people out there who will do this standing on my head but, how does that look Dad? It's a bit more accurate than my husband's suggestion of holding a piece of string between London and Vancouver over a globe. Mind you, probably similar result!
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Well, that's just my bit of string. Pah!
Why use nautical miles rather than km?
That's what the programme output and I couldn't be bothered to change it!
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