Is the earth spherical or flat? Airlines tell us the answer

Expected travel times between airports would be very different if we lived on a flat earth. For example, flying from Sydney, Australia to Santiago, Chile would be around 22 hours, if it were even possible. Surely it would take much longer than flying from Sydney to Los Angeles, right?

[dkittrell]

All the flights from santiago to Sydney have at least one stop there are no non stop flights between those 2 cities. The stops are in los Angeles based on a flat earth map it's easy to see why. On a flat earth map los Angeles is roughly halfway between santiago and Sydney. Flights don't go over the pacific ocean non stop they ALL follow the flat earth route.

[dkittrell]

About 2 years ago a flight from tokyo to los Angeles had to make an emergency landing in Alaska on a flat earth map it's easy to see why because the flight route goes over alaska from tokyo to los Angeles. On a globe that flight route would be thousands of unnecessary miles out the way.

[herberthancock]

Bullocks. You know the earth is not a spinning ball. Ask any real pilot or sniper or railroad engineer.

[letthedeadburythedead]

This guy is a deceiver, he knows very well we don't live on a spinning water ball

[erv]

Too bad you cant book a non stop flight from santiago to Sydney. Take into account the stops and the flat earth map makes sense. I tried to find a non stop flight and there are none. Explain that.

[iamderf]

Why is it that the United Nations symbol looks just like the flat earth model? Even Australia looks exactly the same on both the logo as the model. Is it because they know for a fact that the earth is flat or is that just for show?

[nickbrown]

The flat earth model isn't accurate. Disproving the model doesn't prove a globe earth. It proves that there is still much we don't know. It's just a model, don't get too excited.

[Streetpreaching]

Try to distinguish between round and spherical. Round is a very general and can apply to a dinner plate or pizza pan, which you can circle a round this can be 2d. However for your illustration spherical would a better identifier to establish contrast.

[undertheelm]

Doesn't seem like you used actual flight patterns.

[MarkusEsaKielikello]

Do you have link to pdf document about pilots flight school. That document tells earth is flat?

[brianjohnson]

Flying in a circle gives the illusion of flying in a straight line

[billsmith]

When I was in Santiago, I flew to Buenos Ares. According to the most used flat earth map, that flight from wheels up to wheels down would have meant that a Boeing 737-800 can average 800 mph with a peak of about 850 mph.

On a side note, when in either city, the sun is off about 25 degrees on sunrise and sunset when using the flat earth map. Seems that flat earthers ignore the southern hemisphere.

[paifilhos]

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Resultados de tradução
friend you did not refute anything your doubt is very simple to resolve, you must have more study at last about planes in the case for commercial and continental flights and also intercontinental ones, in short they do not have the same speed capacity, that is, as a commercial there are 900 to 100km per hour already others can reach 7000km per hour this I refute your video and I think it should be humility to study what I say and see that in this cyst you made a mistake without cursing and yes exchange of knowledge repeating this does not refute on the flat land!
Sou brasileiro so pra esclarece em USA.

[GlobeKrusha]

Not all FEr's subscribe to that AE map.

[EdOeuna]

Be careful with plotting direct lines on the Mercator projection map. The New York to Dubai flight won’t fly across northern Africa, but likely loop across southern Greenland and Europe.

Your points are well made, but there is the risk of falling into the same “stupidity trap” of flat earth sufferers.

[vigilanted]

Thats i great point you make!! Im going check it out. Obviously a flatearther but you raise a good point.👍

[bluesteel]

earth is a globe, aircraft need to pitch down in order to maintain a constant altitude. So, for example, if an airplane makes a flight which covers a 15 degree arc across the earth's surface (which is a distance of about a thousand miles), then the airplane will need to pitch down by 15 degrees over the course of the flight.
However, in order to accomplish this, pilots don't "drop the nose of the plane every couple of minutes". Instead, they watch the altimeter, and raise or lower the nose as needed to maintain a constant altitude, or to climb or descend as necessary. (Or they set the autopilot to do the same thing.) This means that they're adjusting the plane's pitch every couple of seconds, and the adjustments that they use to maintain altitude are much, much larger than the adjustments that would be needed to merely match the curvature of the earth.

[AndrewGatt]

You do rely on weather forecasts, don't you? How do you think NOAA can update satellite images many times per day? Look up geosynchronous orbits.
You want a 100% accurate map of the earth? You should download Google Earth. Directions and distances between locations are all very accurate. If they weren't, a flat earth believer would be able to find instances where they were wrong.
I hope this answers some of your questions. You can find out more online if you look in the right places.

[davedaddy]

I like some conspiracy theories because some make you think. But to me the flat earth theory is the most boring of all of them. Round earth is actually more interesting.