YES. A small circle is simply a circle around the earth that does not fly over the direct opposite place on earth that a plane took off from.
A great circle goes full circumference of earth, where a small circle does not. Being a circle they both fly in a constant direction.
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the earth is a sphere but if you look at it as a 2d shape it is a circle
The circumference of the small circle would be 18.84.
Yes it is. Pie = 3.14 or a half circle is 180 degree's where as a full circle is 360 degrees. I fly small aircraft an we always make incomplete circles, it used everyday in the world with engineers and mathematicians. Each quarter circle is 90 degrees, multiplied by 4 equals 360 degrees which is a whole circle. Hope this helped you. John U.
For the small circle of diameter 6, the circumference is 18.84.
You can make your circle as large or as small as you want.