AVIATIONTOOLBOX: automatic route selection

"Julian Scarfe" wrote in message ...
"Ben Jackson" wrote in message
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I keep meaning to apply Dijkstra's algorithm to airway routing.
The key will be choosing edge costs.

I tried something similar for Western Europe. Thinking aloud... My
algorithm was basically:

a) load the entire airway network as a graph using distances as costs

*** I would modify that to use a combination of distance and MEA as
the cost.
I've found that in my personal flight planning, lower MEAs often
translate into a better flight, even if they involve a bit of a
dogleg.

- Jerry Kaidor ( )