Re: [Flightgear-users] Airport to Mt. Everest

[NATHANIEL HOMIER]

NATHANIEL HOMIER wrote:

Does anybody know the closest airport to Mt. Everest and the
true heading at takeoff to reach Everest.  I want to fly
around Everest.  On a related note how does a person find

airports and their identifiers outside of the United States. I use http://www.airnav.com to find airports and their

identifiers in the US.

Lee Elliott wrote:

The nearest airport to Everest is Kathmandu Tribhuvan, ID VNKT.

I can't remember the exact heading but IIRC it's only a little north of East.

LeeE



Thanks for the airports.  I will now have to see if I can find Everest from the 
airport now instead of lon/lat.

Everest, Lhotse and Nuptse are identifiable, with Everest being represented a bit better than the other two (I think it's about 1000ft low, judging by the fly-overs I've done). The khumbu glacier isn't very well represented, last time I looked but when you consider the range of elevations, combined with the resolution of the elevation data that's not too surprising. I've always found the entire region (above 20k ft) covered in snow, so it seems that the land cover data FG uses is correct here - no need to use winter textures;)

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