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Remove clearance requests for aircraft already deep in oceanic airspace #33

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From Mark Eijkens:

No longer display flights who have entered the oceanic like X amount of minutes ago already (say ~30).

This could be done in a few ways...

  • simply remove clearance requests for aircraft that have ETAs over the OEPs that are >n minutes old
  • define a polygon by an array of lat/lon coordinates, defining "the ocean", and check if the aircraft is within that polygon
  • define a boundary line demarcating "the ocean" from "not the ocean yet" 😄 and use a similar method to tell if they've crossed the line yet. This seems programatically tricky and potentially unreliable though. See here for an example.
  • variation on the last one: define all the OEPs, each a/c measure distance to all OEPs, find closest, find heading from that fix to aircraft-- if east of that fix, a/c is "in the ocean", and then just check the mileage

Either external libraries like turf.js etc could be the answer if planning to use other features in the future, or just use a simple guy like this from stackoverflow:

pt[lat,long]

function isPointInPoly(poly, pt){
    for(var c = false, i = -1, l = poly.length, j = l - 1; ++i < l; j = i)
        ((poly[i][1] <= pt[1] && pt[1] < poly[j][1]) || (poly[j][1] <= pt[1] && pt[1] < poly[i][1]))
        && (pt[0] < (poly[j][0] - poly[i][0]) * (pt[1] - poly[i][1]) / (poly[j][1] - poly[i][1]) + poly[i][0])
        && (c = !c);
    return c;
}

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