so that the best route are plotted on top. The fields are:
timestamp
: when the leg was originally generated (it may have been cached)
fullRouteID
: including the refuel stop if any
routeID
: origin and destination airport, in make_AP2
order
refuel_ap
: code for the refuelling airport, or NA
acID, acType
: aircraft identifiers taken from the aircraft set
M084_h
: flight time for a Mach 0.84 comparator aircraft (including 2*arrdep_h
)
gcdist_km
: great circle distance between the origin and destination airports
sea_time_frac
: Fraction of time_h
time spent over sea, hence at supersonic speed,
or accelerating to, or decelerating from supersonic speed
sea_dist_frac
: as sea_time_frac, but fraction of dist_km
dist_km
: total length of the route, in km
time_h
: total time, in hours
n_phases
: number of distinct phases: arr/dep, transition, land, sea, refuel.
advantage_h
: M084_h - time_h
circuity
: the route distance extension (1 = perfect) dist_km / gcdist_km
best
: for each routeID
, the fullrouteID
with maximum advantage_h