The Places on Earth Where Planes Don't Fly

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[Max-zgci]

Kudos to the Keeps rep that saw Simon’s glorious, shiny dome and said “that’s my hair spokesman”

[Calebgoblin]

Simon really just dropped the coldest sentence on the ol Bermuda Triangle, refused to elaborate, and left

[ignitionfrn]

0:35 - Chapter 1 - Disney parks
2:10 - Mid roll ads
3:35 - Back to the video
4:00 - Chapter 2 - Paris, France
5:55 - Chapter 3 - Machu picchu
8:15 - Chapter 4 - Mecca
10:20 - Chapter 5 - North Korea
11:55 - Chapter 6 - Tibet

[solracer]

Back on the last Monday in August on a brief layover in Paris I was walking down the Champs-Élysées mid-morning when suddenly I heard the distinctive sound of a jet aircraft flying low. Having been to Paris many times I knew that you never heard airplanes over the city, especially not flying low so I immediately looked up only to see the 6 jets of the Patrouille de France flying from the direction of the Place de la Concorde towards the Arc de Triomphe trailing blue, white and red smoke! Somehow I managed to quickly get my phone out and snap a photo as they streaked away. Since it was just a random Monday workday and not any special occasion their appearance was perplexing to say the least. After I got home to America I found out that they had been practicing for the opening ceremonies of the Rugby World Cup the week after and my timing had been absolutely perfect!

[fredblonder]

There’s a designated no-fly area near Price, Maryland, for the benefit of the high-powered rocketry hobbyists who have a launch-site there.

[masterchinese]

Lots of planes that were lost trying to run supplies over the Himalayas during WWII were lost. (Many times, they were trying to get in/out of Burma over the Yunnan part of the plateau.) It is about as unforgiving and perilous of a place as you will find.

[hammotimee]

I love that the background of the North Korea title was Machu Picchu. It was my favourite landmark of my trip to Pyongyang

[stevenanderson]

Several years ago, I worked with a man who after he got out of the army, he was flying between Washington DC and New York City. One day he was visited by the secret service who wanted to know why he was flying over Camp David. He pulled a dcurrent map that did not show Camp David was a no fly zone

[DaveTexas]

I’ve heard that Simon has requested a no-fly zone over his studio, so as to keep the noise-related delays in production to a minimum. When you produce 57 videos per day, you can’t afford to stop for a minute every time you hear jet engines. He should hear back from the Czech government in five to seven years.

[JSpwN]

My man, being straight forward with the keeps add, respect. Cheers Simon.

[Annoyachu]

The stadium rule is generally only on game days. Additionally, there are waivers for things such as blimps and sky writers/ fly-overs/ banners, etc. Source- I work security at one of the largest ones.

[henrychinaski]

Great presentation and content as always!

Don't worry. All pilots know about restricted airspaces.

But they could make mistakes due to poor flight planning or lacking of situational awareness or navigation errors.

My humble comment as a student pilot. Greetings from Germany

[kevinalway]

Thanks for another great video Simon. I live in the Channel Islands and there's a small island called Brecqhou just off of Sark. Owned by the reclusive Barclay brothers (only one now) the airspace again is prohibited. Would be a great video - you can see their pink castle from the coast of Sark and they tried interfering with many a local election.

[Bloodfire]

I could have sworn the airspace above Disney has been restricted way longer than that. I remember hearing about it back in the 90s when I went there as a kid.

[RichardMigneron]

Simon, there's also a large area in the Pacific Ocean where planes avoid because that zone is very far from any country. If an incident would occur, it would take a long time and cost a lot to rescue the survivors if any managed to survive the duration.

[Plaprad]

I can vouch for turbulence in mountainous regions. Years ago I was in a C-130 flying about 20k over mountains in Afghanistan. I was walking toward the back of the cargo compartment and the Loadmaster was walking forward. She had just gotten my attention to say something when suddenly the plane dropped. I got my hand up and held myself steady on the wingbox until I crashed back down. She simply vanished into the hog trough until, she too, came crashing down. Face first.

Everyone was ok and we all had a good laugh about it later. Wish I could have recorded it. The look on her face as she drifted past me makes me giggle to this day. She called it her "This shit ain't right" face.

[samedwards]

Thanks so much for creating and sharing this educational and entertaining video. Great job.

[rexpayne]

Another great video and content from Simon. Excellent research from you and your team. 🇦🇺 😊

[xinfuxia]

Lhasa Gonggar airport LXA, elevation 3570m in Tibet has regular daily flights serving domestic Chinese cities. The annual capacity is 9 million passengers. Pilots flying those routes must be extremely familiar with emergency procedures should decompression happens.

[stickynorth]

Very cool video! Especially over Antarctica and the North Pole!