If a pilot is cruising at 120 knots, how many nautical miles per minute does that translate to?

To determine how many nautical miles per minute a pilot cruising at 120 knots translates to, it is essential to understand the relationship between knots and nautical miles. A knot is defined as one nautical mile per hour. Therefore, when a pilot is flying at 120 knots, they are traveling 120 nautical miles in one hour.

To convert this speed into nautical miles per minute, you can divide the total nautical miles travelled in an hour by the number of minutes in an hour (which is 60).

Performing the calculation:

120 nautical miles per hour ÷ 60 minutes per hour = 2 nautical miles per minute.

This calculation accurately reflects the speed of the aircraft in terms of nautical miles covered in a shorter time frame, corresponding to standard time conversion. Thus, a cruising speed of 120 knots indeed translates to 2 nautical miles per minute.