We fly for a living. We run to keep flying.
Every kilometre you run becomes a nautical mile. Every nautical mile becomes a euro for someone who needs to fly.
- Pilots
- Students
- Instructors
- Cabin crew
- Engineers
- Controllers
- Positive Rate
- 1 km = 0.54 NM
- 1 NM = 1 euro
- Run. Convert. Give.
Why this exists
- 01
We sit for a living.
Aircrew move less than almost anyone who works. The aeromedical research is not kind about what that does over twenty years.
- 02
The medical is the licence.
Cardiovascular fitness is the most modifiable line on that form. Everything else about your career sits downstream of it.
- 03
Flying costs everything. Running costs nothing.
One hour in a 152 costs more than a year of shoes.
- 04
So the miles go somewhere.
One euro a nautical mile, to people who fly others for free.
The conversion
You already ran it. Now find out what it is worth.
The converter needs JavaScript to do the arithmetic. Every other word on this site reads without it. A kilometre is 0.54 of a nautical mile, if you would rather do it by hand.
No entry
Put a distance in. The figures fill themselves.
Where it goes
You pick the cause. You give them the money.
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Aerobility
Gives anyone with any disability access to flight, and scholarships that remove the financial barrier as well as the physical one.
Donate
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Orbis Flying Eye Hospital
An MD-10 converted into a mobile teaching hospital. Volunteer crews are current and former FedEx pilots.
Donate
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Wings of Hope
Medical relief and air transport where distance, terrain and missing roads stand between people and care.
Donate
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Angel Flight West
Volunteer pilots flying patients to distant treatment, free. Every donation is matched four times over by pilots donating the flight itself.
Donate
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Pilot Mental Health Campaign
Reforming how aviation medical regulation handles mental health, so people ask for help earlier.
Donate
Join
Thirty seconds, and you are in.
No fee, no minimum, no qualifying pace.
- 01
Join the club on Strava.
- 02
Run. Any distance, any surface. A walk before an early duty counts.
- 03
Convert it here and send the miles somewhere useful.
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Post it. Tag it #PositiveRate.
This month’s leg
Month one. Hradec Králové to Pardubice.
LKHK LKPD 15 NM
0 of 15 NM run by the club.
Fifteen nautical miles. One marathon clears it. Two of us walking clears it by the weekend.
Great circle, aerodrome reference point to ARP. Verified by hand, published once a month.
Questions
The four we get asked most.
Does it cost anything to join?
No. There is no fee, no minimum and no qualifying pace.
The only money involved goes straight from you to a charity, and never through us.
Do I have to give a euro a nautical mile?
No. One euro is the anchor, not the rule.
Move the rate up, move it down, or set it to whatever this month allows. Nobody sees it but you.
Who holds the money?
Nobody here. Positive Rate does not collect, hold or process a single cent.
You pick a cause and give to them directly, on their own page. We do the arithmetic and the encouragement.
I am slow. Is that a problem?
No. We rank you against your own last month, never against the fastest person here.
A walk before an early duty counts. So does a first 5K, and it gets the same response as an Ironman.
See you at the hold.