Great Circles and Rhumb Lines - Types of Routes

In this video the main characteristics of the great circle routes and the rhumb lines are explained, together with graphic examples and practical applications in aviation.

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[starpawsy]

This is right on point. There are so so so many people in Flight Simulator forums that have no idea about this. The GPS flies a great circle route, which when you're doing something like LAX - Rome is quite curved, and they keep insisting it is "wrong".

[TC-BCN]

Great narrative and explanation as usual, thanks a lot.

[mikjackson]

Great video, now Im totally clear on the differences and it makes complete sense. Thank you!

[-pilot]

Wow! This Robot-man did a great job explaining these concepts! 😂

[JovenJB]

Excellent explanation! Not too mathematical but practical.

[jakubtrela]

Wow, you helped me a lot. Thank you for your content.

[MegaCaptsparrow]

Perfect ! This is how things should be explained!👍

[mouradrezig]

It’s was very good explanation thank you very much

[jaidmulla]

Just simply you explain man good HATSOFF😊👍

[brianle]

It’s really useful presentation for me and thanks Sir!
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[komisanchiefcommander]

It's so good to refreshed the old subject. Thank you!

[dirkbuys]

Nice video and every time I think I have it it's gone again :-)

[madeelajmal]

Great Work Sir. Your Videos Help Me Alot❤️

[sephefox]

Thanks for this video, but I want to point out a problem with your terminology about distances. In the graphic shown at 0:36, it shows large distance measurements labeled as "large scale" and short distances as "small scale". Actually, a large scale map would be one that shows a smaller area, or shorter distances than a small scale map. This is because the word "scale" refers to the ratio between a measurement on the map and the distance it actually represents on the ground. So in a small scale map, of say a continent, would have a ratio of perhaps 1:10, 000, 000, and a large scale map, of perhaps a neighborhood, would have a ratio more like 1:1000. If you changed the labels to large distance and small distance, it would avoid the issue.

[envitech]

Excellent tutorial!!! Oh where were you during my pilot student days??

[rickdemaria]

Great circle routes are not “curved” paths. An aircraft flying a great circle route would be flying a straight line to its destination as viewed from above on a lambert conformal projection chart. Due to the navigation aid we use “magnetic” the mag course will continually change, so we are only correcting for the magnetic difference along the route…..but the aircraft does not change heading either left nor right, we only can fly a straight line if we consistently correct for mag differences. It only “looks” curved because you’re not looking straight down on the flight route. You have to look at the route as an orthodromic representation. “3D”

[jotaro]

Please, can anyone tell me where can I find a textbook or document where this thing is written. I need to cute it

[BobbieGWhiz]

Do you also answer calls and tell me which number to push for billing?

[micromanbusinessrd]

Peerless Detailing of GreatCircle, *ThanksUp*
Sir how about great circle of moon ?.

[arazali]

It was more than good thank you so much.