Nonstop flight route between Pärnu, Estonia and Windhoek, Namibia:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Pärnu Airport (EPU), Pärnu, Estonia and Eros Airport (ERS), Windhoek, Namibia would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,615 miles (or 9,036 kilometers).

A Great Circle is the shortest distance between 2 points on a sphere. Because most world maps are flat (but the Earth is round), the route of the shortest distance between 2 points on the Earth will often appear curved when viewed on a flat map, especially for long distances. If you were to simply draw a straight line on a flat map and measure a very long distance, it would likely be much further than if you were to lay a string between those two points on a globe. Because of the large distance between Pärnu Airport and Eros Airport, the route shown on this map most likely appears curved because of this reason.

Try it at home! Get a globe and tightly lay a string between Pärnu Airport and Eros Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Pärnu Airport (EPU):

• Aeroflot used to operate Tartu-Viljandi-Pärnu-Kingissepa services using Antonov An-2 biplanes.
• Pärnu Airport (EPU) currently has only 1 runway.
• Because of Pärnu Airport's relatively low elevation of 46 feet, planes can take off or land at Pärnu Airport at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations.
• In the summer of 1992, the re-constituted Estonian defence ministry took over the military airport, which had drawn down its operations.
• In addition to being known as "Pärnu Airport", another name for EPU is "Pärnu lennujaam".
• The small airline Air Livonia flew from Pärnu to Kuressaare, Kihnu and Ruhnu until 2006.
• The closest airport to Pärnu Airport (EPU) is Tallinn Airport (TLL), which is located 70 miles (112 kilometers) N of EPU.
• The furthest airport from Pärnu Airport (EPU) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,091 miles (17,848 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.

Facts about Eros Airport (ERS):

• In January 2008, a Cessna 210 crashed after take off killing the pilot and all 6 tourists on board.
• Eros Airport (ERS) has 2 runways.
• The furthest airport from Eros Airport (ERS) is PMRF Barking Sands (BKH), which is nearly antipodal to Eros Airport (meaning Eros Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from PMRF Barking Sands), and is located 12,232 miles (19,686 kilometers) away in Kekaha, Hawaii, United States.
• The closest airport to Eros Airport (ERS) is Hosea Kutako International Airport (WDH), which is located 26 miles (42 kilometers) ENE of ERS.
• Because of Eros Airport's high elevation of 5,575 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at ERS. Combined with a high temperature, this could make ERS a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• The airport resides at an elevation of 5,575 feet above mean sea level.
• In addition to being known as "Eros Airport", another name for ERS is "Windhoek Eros Airport".