Talking About distancesHi @ALL;
I have previously considered the "distances" problematic referring to South East Asia.
In fact, earlier in the candidates decision I pushed Raven to reduce South East Asia to "Peninsular" South East Asia, to made it somehow "acceptable" in terms of sizing of the festival area.
(In other words, if we would have include Maritime South East Asia, then the flights could have been enormous).
Now,
The way I see it, is that this festival size offers really convenient flights for pilots of all styles.
It has great short range flights (like WSSS-WMKK) and great flights of the "short regional jet" envelope --Like WSSS - VTBS) and it has the long range pleasure (for pilots willing to do 2h or aboutish flight. The longest possible flight is already covered, from Singapore to Mandalay.
See the following map showing the distances from the main hubs (some of them not yet offered) to Mandalay
The distance table is by the
great circle mapper, as follows:
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Origin Destination Headings Distances
VYMD WSSS 158°(S) 158°(S) 1,303 nm
VYMD WMKK 163°(S) 163°(S) 1,181 nm
VYMD VVTS 135°(SE) 136°(SE) 895 nm
VYMD VTSP 170°(S) 171°(S) 823 nm
VYMD VTBS 150°(SE) 150°(SE) 552 nm
VYMD VVNB 091°(E) 092°(E) 551 nm
VYMD VLVT 120°(SE) 120°(SE) 434 nm
No major airport can be found in the region above Mandalay, but if other small airports on Myanmar would get served that will only benefit the festival's SEAsia to the north.
Keep in mind that pilots that enjoy short -range hoping have a wonderful alternative to cover the area.
example (northbound)
Singapore (or Kuala Lumpur) -> Phuket (or Ho-Chi-Min) -> Bangkok -> Vientiane (or Hanoi) -> Mandalay
That's quite a nice ferry route in nice hops, drawn as follow
A graphical view of that is this
Notice that the only 2 post currently not-yet serviced on such possible set of plans are Vientiane (VLVT) and Hanoi (VVNB).
Finally, also consider that no single flight above exceeded 760 nm, and most are within an average of 500 nm
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WSSS VVTS 016° (N) 015° (N) 587 nm
WMKK VTBS 355° (N) 355° (N) 656 nm
WMKK VTSP 328° (NW) 328° (NW) 379 nm
VVTS VLVT 331° (NW) 332° (NW) 490 nm
WSSS VTBS 345° (N) 345° (N) 761 nm
VTBS VYMD 331° (NW) 332° (NW) 552 nm
WSSS VTSP 320° (NW) 320° (NW) 527 nm
WMKK VVTS 031° (NE) 031° (NE) 565 nm
VTSP VTBS 023° (NE) 024° (NE) 362 nm
VVTS VTBS 297° (NW) 297° (NW) 387 nm
VVTS VVNB 356° (N) 356° (N) 623 nm
VTBS VLVT 022° (N) 023° (NE) 278 nm
VLVT VYMD 302° (NW) 303° (NW) 434 nm
VVNB VYMD 275° (W) 276° (W) 551 nm
VTBS VVNB 032° (NE) 033° (NE) 536 nm