If it is any consolation, I knew what you meant. Otherwise, you'd probably have said something like glide and the glide ratio of the big planes isn't very good.
Out of curiosity, I just checked for the A380 and the best guess is 15:1, so it does glide better than I expected, but still not that far.
Google tells me that it'd glide ~130 miles if it had a starting altitude of 45,000'. That's better than I expected.
Out of curiosity, I just checked for the A380 and the best guess is 15:1, so it does glide better than I expected, but still not that far.
Google tells me that it'd glide ~130 miles if it had a starting altitude of 45,000'. That's better than I expected.