Great Circle vs Arclune

Point your phone towards a place of interest and see the Great Circle that takes you there. Want to know the shortest route to New York, Paris or Hong Kong? Simple - zoom out the map and point your phone at the city. Beautiful great circles are overlaid on to the map showing you the direction to head in. Want to find the opposite place on earth to you? Tap the button and the app will fly you there. Also great for locating places nearby - just add two or more lines to the map and see where they cross.

How far apart are airports, really? Arclune shows airport-to-airport routes as great-circle arcs on Apple Maps, making distance, scale, and time context easy to understand. Search a bundled offline airport database by IATA, ICAO, FAA/local code, airport name, or city. Compare direct and multi-leg routes, add stops or shape points, and view distances in kilometres, nautical miles, and statute miles. Recent routes stay local on your device so you can reopen common comparisons quickly. For time context, Arclune uses selected aircraft assumptions, route allowance, and typical seasonal wind information. Share cards export a clean route view with map, distance, and branding. Arclune is an information and visualisation tool. Do not use it for navigation, flight planning, dispatch, fuel, weather, NOTAM, safety, regulatory, or operational decisions. Data, maps, wind values, and time estimates may be incomplete, inaccurate, non-operational, or out of date.