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Old Apr 9, 2019, 2:53 pm
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Originally Posted by kjnangre
Ya but GRR-MSP-ALB is almost the same length and it's legal. 2x would disallow both MSP and ATL as connections. 3x would allow both MSP and ATL as connections. For MSP to be allowed and ATL to be disallowed, the cut-off would have to be something like 2.42x. That would seem like an unusual rule to me. I think it's something else
Using actual mileage, a cutoff of 2.5 would distinguish them (2.33 vs. 2.507). Or it might be something else (allow only the shortest if over 2?)
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