The blog says the destination was Oakland. The Oakland International Airport is at 37°43′17″N 122°13′15″W. The data packet also contains the current lat and long of the flight as 40.201 and -100.755 respectively. Plugging that in to a distance calculator [2] gives 1163 miles, 1010.6 nautical miles, or 1871.6km. So the distance value of 1167 appears to be miles.
At 487mph covering 1163 miles would take 2.3963039014 hours or ~2h23m. If the speed is knots then it would be 2.08233112598 hours or ~2h5m at 560.4296mph. So mph makes the most sense given an estimated time of arrival of 2h25m.
So I think you are right, the distance appears to be miles and the speed MPH. This makes sense for an in-flight infotainment system on a US domestic flight.
The difference between 1167 and 1163 can probably be explained by the fact that the plane is 6.5 miles in the air traveling at 8 miles per minute and we don't know update interval or if the distance is in the air or on the ground.
The blog says the destination was Oakland. The Oakland International Airport is at 37°43′17″N 122°13′15″W. The data packet also contains the current lat and long of the flight as 40.201 and -100.755 respectively. Plugging that in to a distance calculator [2] gives 1163 miles, 1010.6 nautical miles, or 1871.6km. So the distance value of 1167 appears to be miles.
At 487mph covering 1163 miles would take 2.3963039014 hours or ~2h23m. If the speed is knots then it would be 2.08233112598 hours or ~2h5m at 560.4296mph. So mph makes the most sense given an estimated time of arrival of 2h25m.
So I think you are right, the distance appears to be miles and the speed MPH. This makes sense for an in-flight infotainment system on a US domestic flight.
The difference between 1167 and 1163 can probably be explained by the fact that the plane is 6.5 miles in the air traveling at 8 miles per minute and we don't know update interval or if the distance is in the air or on the ground.
[1]: https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Oakland_I...
[2]: https://www.omnicalculator.com/other/latitude-longitude-dist...