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This gives a lot of importance to small airports in small islands. Big international airports are surrounded by other smaller airports. They are associated with
by reacweb 8y ago
This gives a lot of importance to small airports in small islands. Big international airports are surrounded by other smaller airports. They are associated with a tiny surface. I can not see how this representation may be of any use for airports.
- acjohnson55 8y agoIt doesn't seem to me that it's designed to be "useful" as much as just interesting.
- jypepin 8y agoI guess that would be useful in a case where you'd want a representation with an importance that is reversely proportional to the airport importance.
- schreiaj 8y agoAbility to divert in an emergency?
- perilunar 8y agoAbsolutely. It's a map of closest airport for any location on earth. You could do different versions of this for different classes of plane (e.g. select a minimum runway length).
- mikeash 8y agoThis has a big influence on which routes a plane can fly. You can’t be more than a certain distance from a usable airport at any time during the flight to mitigate the risk of engine failure resulting in an off-airport landing/crash. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS
- isostatic 8y agoAnd diversion airports of course vary with things like weather