The Plane Highway in the Sky

Over the North Atlantic, where there is no radar coverage, planes don't fly like they normally fly. They follow a set of daily tracks that act like highways in the sky.

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Attributions:
North Pole Oriented Map Courtesy Strebe
Airplane icon courtesy Mirko Velimirovic from Noun Project
Airplane overhead icon courtesy Viktor Vorobyev from Noun Project
Air Traffic Control video courtesy Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Cockpit view courtesy Simulation and Aviation
Overnight flight footage courtesy FlyingHDWorldwide

[sumthin]

"Radar services terminated. have a good night." that just gave me the chills...

[bc]

Recently was on a flight crossing the Pacific ocean, I remember looking out the window in midflight and realizing we are in the middle of nowhere and just feeling that nothingness. When you said "radar services terminated and have a good night" it totally brought back the feeling...

[tomthyhshshsh]

“If you’ve ever looked at a flight tracker sometime around ten or eleven PM eastern”

Yeah I do it everyday

[sheeb]

“Radar services terminated. Have a good night.” Dang I felt that.

[rubennouta]

Am I the only one who LOVED the technical part?

[discoverall]

1-The timing
2-The music
3-The photography
4-And the phrase (Radar services terminated. Have a good night)And we are on our own.
This is how to make awesome moments in a movie or in a video in this case.

[namiix]

"Radio services terminated. Have a good night." Damn, that's creepy...

[BlueMonkey]

Seeing a new video from you pop up in my sub box fills me with joy. Always so fascinating seeing how you approach a topic and then explaining it in such an interconnected way. As always, great job on keeping the quality so high in your videos! ^-^

[Ensign_Cthulhu]

2:02 There are two things to bear in mind here. 1) The speed of sound is 760mph only at sea level in the standard atmosphere (1013hPa/millibars, 15 celsius) and falls with height, and 2) the difference between airspeed and ground speed. The 745mph here is almost certainly ground speed, which is airspeed plus tailwind (or minus headwind). This aircraft was moving at 545mph relative to a corridor of air that was moving at 200mph.

[kyledavis]

1:42 Not true any more - as of February 2020 another British airways flight set a new record of 4 hours and 56 minutes between New York and London

[erojerisiz]

"Radar services terminated. Have a good night."
Pilot: *grabs phone* let's play minecraft with the passengers

[spencerbeyers]

"Over 2000 daily flights"
2020: Hold my beer

[HeIvetikate]

pilot: can we request clearance for takeoff point 9/11?
air control: WHAT??

[elisnowden]

When he said "Radar services terminated" I got goosebumps.

[kylejonas]

“Boston’s waypoints named for its sports teams, cubs and bears”
But those are from Chicago

[SoftwareFreakey]

You actually forgot something! Pilots are still communicating with Shanwick or Gander and have to give them "position reports" when they cross a waypoint on the NAT and say the ETA for the next waypoint. Most often this is done via the FMC. The controllers still have an overview and safety is guaranteed!

[johnmckay]

I live in Newfoundland! On 9/11 all flights coming to and from Europe were stopped in various airports (mainly Gander)... I'll never forget that day and all those planes...

[SteveTownshend]

I love your videos. But I have to correct one error in this video. I’m a 747 Pilot for Cathay Pacific, so know a little about this topic. You said that due to a strong jet steam a plane got very close to the speed of sound. That’s not correct.

An aircrafts “Ground Speed” has no bearing on their Mach number (Mach number is their percentage of the speed-of-sound they are flying). Only “airspeed” matters, and wind (jet steam) won’t affect an aircrafts airspeed. We fly at Mach 0.84 (or 84% of the speed of sound). Sometimes our ground speed is 450 knots, other times it’s 650 knots. But how close we are to the speed of sound has nothing to do with how fast we fly over the ground. Only how fast we’re flying through the air.

Anyway, I couldn’t let that one slide, I had to say something. Otherwise, keep up the amazing videos! I’ve learned so much from watching them all! Cheers!

[KnownNever]

I enjoy people on youtube who make quality content like this instead of vlogs, gaming, and drama! Keep it up

[ThePhrygianFingers]

4:09 I didn't know Steve from Blue's Clues was in the Air Traffic Control business!