Distance
Provides waypoint time, ground distance, and speed information.Available for these objects: Aircraft, GroundVehicle, Ship
Type: Time-varying data. Intended to be used only with elements from this same data provider.
Availability: Reports | Graphs | Dynamic Displays | Strip Charts
Data Provider Elements
| Name | Dimension | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Date | Real Number or Text | Time. |
| Time from start | Time | Real Number | Time elapsed from the first waypoint time. TimeUnit, real number. |
| Dist from start | Distance | Real Number | Distance traveled from the first waypoint. Calculated by summing the distances between each waypoint from the start. DistanceUnit, real number. |
| Average Speed | Rate | Real Number | Dist from start / Time from start.Rate, real number. |
| Time to finish | Time | Real Number | Time to last waypoint. TimeUnit, real number. |
| Dist to finish | Distance | Real Number | Distance to the last waypoint. Calculated by summing the distances between each waypoint to the finish. DistanceUnit, real number. |
| Dist from prev point | Distance | Real Number | Distance along the central body ellipsoid between the detic subpoints of the vehicle as its ephemeris is sampled. DistanceUnit, real number. |
| Speed | Rate | Real Number | Magnitude of the velocity vector of the projection of the selected point onto the reference plane. |