Problem calculating haversine. Obtained distance is too big

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Jaime De La Mota Sanchis
Jaime De La Mota Sanchis am 13 Mär. 2021
Hello everyone. I am working in airplane conflic detection. I have two aircraft optimized routes and I need to know the distance between them. The trajectories are given in degrees. I have tried to use the haversine to calculate the distance between each trajectory points as
RT=6378*1000;
haversine_angle=(sin((meanPhi2-meanPhi1)/2)).^2+cos(meanPhi1).*cos(meanPhi2).*(sin((meanLam2-meanLam1)/2)).^2;
haversine_sqrt=(haversine_angle).^0.5;
haversine_mean_distance_alternative =RT.*asin(haversine_sqrt);
figure
plot(meanTim2, haversine_mean_distance_alternative, 'b')
When I execute the code, I obtain the results displayed in figure 1.
However, if I calculate the distance between the starting points, it is way smaller that the one displayed in the figure 1.
I don't know what I am doing wrong in my calculation. As far as I see, I have implemented everything well. Also, note that if I use radians in the angles as
meanLam1=deg2rad(meanLam1);
meanLam2=deg2rad(meanLam2);
meanPhi1=deg2rad(meanPhi1);
meanPhi2=deg2rad(meanPhi2);
The distance is
Which still doesn't look like the one in the map.
Can someone help me?
Regards.
Jaime.
I am also attaching the files which contain the trajectories of both airplanes and the time (which is the same for both airplanes)

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Jaime De La Mota Sanchis
Jaime De La Mota Sanchis am 14 Mär. 2021
Never mind. i just found out I forgot a factor of 2 in the calculation of the haversine.

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