What's the shortest commercial flight in which an airliner gets to reach full cruising altitude?
How many kilometers? Dulles to JFK? Baltimore to Boston? Does the slope of that flight look like a triangle, with a constant rate of climb, or a parabola, with the rate of climb slowly tapering off?
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................... there is always optimum level for the distance ................. on full load it can take up to 125 miles to climb to optimum level and the not the top altitude ............... it has to do in steps ................. as it gets lighter ................... after burning fuel ...............
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More like San Francisco to Reno, or Seattle to Portland. I guess JFK to BOS would do it too. But what Spaceman says is right. It's never a parabola. Short flights would tend to have a lighter fuel load too and you wouldn't get time to earn back the fuel you burn in the climb with a long cruise, so you won't be going above about 28-29,000 feet unless traffic dictates it, any more and you'd lose ground speed and in any case you'll be coming back down in a few minutes.
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he flight will reach a cruising altitude for some time. they will use smaller aircraft that most likely goes slower than u think.
