# Distance for flights to/from user waypoint

**URL:** <https://forum.navigraph.com/t/distance-for-flights-to-from-user-waypoint/14172>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [December 12, 2023, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.navigraph.com/t/distance-for-flights-to-from-user-waypoint/14172 "2023-12-12T19:47:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![thingsis](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.navigraph.com/thingsis/32/16305_2.png) [@thingsis](https://forum.navigraph.com/u/thingsis)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.navigraph.com/t/distance-for-flights-to-from-user-waypoint/14172/1 "2023-12-12T19:47:10Z")

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Hi,

I often fly to or from airports which are not in the database. These are smaller private fields. Now I understand that adding them is not an option. And also we have user created waypoints. That all works great.

One issue remains though: Since I can’t use that waypoint as the start or destination of my flight, it doesn’t show me the flight distance. That makes planning those flights super difficult. I am very new to Navigraph, so maybe I’m missing something. Is there a way to get the total distance of those flights or maybe a chance this waypoints could be allowed as origin or destination in the future?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![skysail](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.navigraph.com/skysail/32/304_2.png) [@skysail](https://forum.navigraph.com/u/skysail)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 9:11am UTC](https://forum.navigraph.com/t/distance-for-flights-to-from-user-waypoint/14172/2 "2023-12-13T09:11:44Z")

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Hello, welcome to our forum and thank you for the feedback!

Unfortunately, waypoints can indeed not be used as origin or destination. This is not likely to change anytime soon. However, I don’t think it is intentional that the distance calculation is left out when not including any airports!

I will add this to our bug tracker, we shall investigate as soon as we have available resources.

Apologies for the inconvenience!

Kind Regards,  
Malte

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**Author:** ![skysail](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.navigraph.com/skysail/32/304_2.png) [@skysail](https://forum.navigraph.com/u/skysail)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.navigraph.com/t/distance-for-flights-to-from-user-waypoint/14172/3 "2023-12-13T19:39:00Z")

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Hi again!

We have just updated our servers, and you should now see a distance even when you do not have any origin or destination airports selected. Try it out and let us know how it works for you!

Kind Regards,  
Malte

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**Author:** ![thingsis](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.navigraph.com/thingsis/32/16305_2.png) [@thingsis](https://forum.navigraph.com/u/thingsis)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 9:27pm UTC](https://forum.navigraph.com/t/distance-for-flights-to-from-user-waypoint/14172/4 "2023-12-13T21:27:38Z")

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Hi Malte,

thank you for your quick reply. And I am very amazed at how quick this change was made. This completely solves the issue and I can now see the total length of my trip - it works great! Again, amazing customer service and thanks to you and your team 🙂

Best regards,  
Henrik

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**Author:** ![system](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/navigraph1/original/1X/4cc83e90d70ab312b1bd2d7527bddad309607265.png) [@system](https://forum.navigraph.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2023, 9:27pm UTC](https://forum.navigraph.com/t/distance-for-flights-to-from-user-waypoint/14172/5 "2023-12-15T21:27:58Z")

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