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According to Flat Earthers, this is the route a direct flight from London to Sydney would take. I don't remember flying via Norway and Siberia. Care to explain? (media.conspiracies.win)
posted 2 years ago by Eisenhorn 2 years ago by Eisenhorn +5 / -6
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– Ep0ch 1 point 2 years ago +2 / -1

No, you cannot. At all. Flight tends to avoid it. Completely avoid it. There are very Satellites there. The Planet's magnetism renders compasses, navigation, kaput. Meanwhile there's the obvious weather.

Nowhere near the Pole, yes flight goes to Anchorage, and Greenland. But it doesn't passes by the Pole there.

Your planned route is very close to it. Risk zone. Weather as well.

Aside you have fuel problems. You'd have to refuel. It diverts any path considerably.

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– Allas8 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0

You do not need a compass, when you fly in a straight line, level flight. Gyroscopes are used to keep the flight level. Even though you say it is so dangerous, I know not of any commercial airplane crashing when flying over the North Pole.

Flight time from no stop flights from New York to Hong Kong is about 16 hours, and flies daily: within range of fuel capacity of big airplanes.

Also compasses not being useful the closer you get to the North Pole is only natural, as you will be drawing a smaller and smaller circle around the North Pole, making any movement having a bigger impact on the compass needle.

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– Ep0ch -1 points 2 years ago +1 / -2

Are you nuts? You don't know where the Ukraine is.

There is no commercial flight anywhere near the pole.

How about you go and Google it. Filling in the missing gaps of your education. Instead of telling me what you think you know.

I get really tired of this forum certain members telling me stuff that is common knowledge. They could Google it in 5 minutes. Instead they write a bunch of crap. Go on Google it.

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/polar-routes-flights-that-go-over-earths-poles

Not over the pole, avoided. They shout hoohaw it's the pole. Everything in the entire arctic circle, can be vaguely accredited as the pole. Is it over the center, the black circle on that map. It's around it. That distance is actually quite significant, how many miles are we talking from that black circle area, there, to the flightpath. How close to it?

When I saw the former route posted. The airspace is questionable. Again technically, what flight goes over the Pole, through that black circle.

Those concerns were, as stated.

Further concerns are if the airspace remains open. Today's sanctions?

Meanwhile there is another concern coming up in frequency since the airspace opened up. Increasing more recently. Health, the radiation exposure. In the arctic is higher. Whether or not Planet Dystopia cares, most humans would rather holiday. Most humans don't even care if the country went into civil war, they'd only care about their holiday. Well it's becoming any increasing concern and statistic.

If we did an area like the other picture of the South Pole. A continent. Is it similar? One has a better representation. Because it's a land mass. The flight path doesn't go over it.

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– Allas8 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

how many miles are we talking from that black circle area, there, to the flightpath.

In fact, the closest our flight comes to the North Pole is 85.6 degrees north, with the North Pole being 90 degrees. Plotting it on Google Earth, the plane passes some 304 miles from Santa's workshop. If you're a passenger on board, look out the window, and you could see it. And if not, you're still gazing out over the most northern reaches of the planet, far inside the Arctic Circle.

https://thepointsguy.com/news/flying-polar-route/

304 miles, that is how close it passes the North Pole.

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– Ep0ch 0 points 2 years ago +1 / -1

Huge, what is 300-500 miles square. Antarctica?

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