How to Use Great Circle Mapper Like a Pro | News 4 Social (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Great Circle Mapper, also known as “GCMap” and available at gcmap.
com , has been a beloved tool among dedicated aviation geeks for quite some time. More recently, it has become even more valuable for Canadians with Aeroplan’s implementation of distance-based reward pricing. Your reward-booking game will benefit greatly from familiarizing yourself with this online mapping tool.
In this installment, we’ll go over all of the Great Circle Mapper techniques that you can use to plan itineraries, chart out distances, and generate all the pretty routing maps you see here on News 4 Social. 1. Mapping a Flight First, you’ll want to enter gcmap.
com in your browser and pull up the Great Circle Mapper homepage. Here, you’ll find a rotating “Featured Map” that is usually pretty interesting to look at, but you’ll want to concentrate on the main input bar at the top, which is where the magic happens. (adsbygoogle = window.
adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Let’s begin with the simple task of mapping a certain flight route and calculating the distance – to take one of the Aeroplan loyalty program’s sweet spots, let’s say Montreal–Lisbon–Casablanca. You’d enter this in the form of IATA airport codes or city codes, separated by hyphens (“-“).
So in our example, it’d be “YUL-LIS-CMN”, and press the “Map” button or the “Enter” key. If you don’t.