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Chris -- 2011-03-08
A nautical mile is 1852 meters. A knot is 1 nautical mile per hour. There’s no such thing as a knotical mile. Examples:
Distance in latitude is very simple since one minute of latitude is exactly one knotical mile everywhere on earth.
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Could someone please tell me what a Knotical mile is in comparison to the standard mile.
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It had taken me a full 2 hours to make the 5 knotical mile journey back to port.
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“With a 160-knot cruise speed and an 800-knotical-mile range, the SR20 is a great cross-country aircraft.”
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