How is Air distance calculated in respect of destinations from one place to another?

Answer 1

It is usually spherical geometry calculations, most commonly Great Circle distances. The nautical mile (1852 meters) is the standard unit. If you are implying the total flight distance, it is the summation of distances between waypoints that constitute the flight plan.

You can use the link below for point-to-point great circle distance computation.

Answer 2

Basically you take the lattitude and longitude of both locations and that gives you an angular difference in two dimensions. You resolve that into an angular distance along the great circle route and then convert that to a distance along the great circle. If you convert the angles to radians it makes working out the distance easier.

Wikipedia actually does a good job of explaining and shows a worked example.

Answer 3

Its first measured in nautical miles. Which is 1.2 nautical miles for every regular mile like what you would drive in your car.
Now, if your asking how they figure it for air miles, points, etc. It is calculated in a straight line from one destination to another. The flights you take always fly more miles than your actual destination.

Answer 4

Air distance is usually calculated by navigation and rates such as velocity, acceleration, and etc. Usually using SI units of measurement such as a meter, second and so on. I only used the basic SI measurements because that's how they measure it doing Physics

Answer 5

Distance is measured in Nautical Miles, which is a straight line should you be choosing to fly that vector, along with Fuel-Burn. Hope this helped.

Answer 6

"Air distance" is not great circle distance. Air distance takes the movement of the air mass into account.