Glide distance from height and ratio

Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/glideratio-api/v1/glide-distance" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."

await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/glideratio-api/v1/glide-distance", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});

$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/glideratio-api/v1/glide-distance");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);

import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/glideratio-api/v1/glide-distance",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "note": "Still-air glide distance = height above the ground × the glide ratio (L/D): from 5,000 ft at a 9:1 ratio you can reach about 45,000 ft, ~7.4 nm. A headwind shortens it and a tailwind extends it, since the airframe still sinks at the same rate while the ground moves underneath — so plan an engine-out glide with a margin, and remember the figure is for the best-glide speed; faster or slower both steepen the descent.",
        "inputs": {
            "height_ft": 5000,
            "glide_ratio": 9
        },
        "glide_distance_ft": 45000,
        "glide_distance_km": 13.72,
        "glide_distance_nm": 7.41
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-07T08:18:05.642Z",
        "request_id": "cd6e46cf-b57c-45d3-89dc-4d62c9591d86"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Glide distance",
    "success": true
}