Why Planes try not to fly over the Pacific Ocean?

Why Planes try not to fly over the Pacific Ocean?

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Edited by: Luca Hideo Okido.

[Jimorian]

This is the first time I've found you guys talking utter nonsense. Those "curved" routes ARE the straight lines from one point to another (great circles).

[alucide]

A straight line is the shortest, it's just that this straight line showes as curved on a flat map.

[dobaivaler]

Airliners ARE taking straight lines. But if you stretch a sphere on a 2D map, it will appear curved.

[BayAreaTraveler]

Absolute complete nonsense. Planes fly their route depending on several factors including wind and ETOPS and has nothing to do with avoiding Pacific Ocean. Contrary to what you say, many times flights from Far East Asia to US West Coast goes straight across the pacific to take advantage of the wind even though great circle route over to Aleutian Island and back down the Canadian coast would be shorter. AND these are flown with twin engines airliners as long as it fulfills ETOPS requirements.

[igglybiggly]

Hawaiian Airlines has entered the chat😅

[mikesperience]

There are flights from Vancouver to Tokyo LA, DFW to Sydney, Auckland to Houston fly completely above The Pacific Ocean

[promiscuouscrab]

Flew from US to NZ….couldn’t have flown more over the Pacific.

[brasswater]

Whoever wrote this had bo clue what they were saying.

[yingzhang]

Cathay Pacific always flying over the pacific ocean:

[BillClay]

This whole message is wrong. I'm a pilot and NTSB investigator.

[chrisbraid]

You have a very limited view on where people choose to fly. I’m from NZ and we could only fly next door to Austraya if we didn’t want to cross the Pacific. We aren’t afraid of flying over the Pacific though because we have good maintenance protocols for all our aircraft . We trust them not to break down over the ocean and they don’t. I am most amused though that they do the full water drill over here taking off from Kalgoorlie to fly 600 km over land to Perth with no lake big enough to ditch into …

[alfredkennedy]

If you look at these routes on a "flat earth" map, you would see why they are actually flying a straight line

[MattTully]

This video is a disaster for Simple Flying's credibility. How do you think flights from Australia or New Zealand to North America get there???? The writer is very confused about "straight lines" versus "curved routes". Aeroplanes don't "choose" or "try".

[kye.t.s]

SFO- New Zealand
SFO - Fiji
LAX - New Zealand
LAX - Fiji
LAX - Sydney
SFO - Tahiti

And the list goes on

[annoyingbstard]

And I wanted to fly to Hawaii. Guess I’ll have to swim

[CliftonLee]

My wife and I flew from Philadelphia to Vietnam. At one point, the pilot came over the loudspeaker and announced that we were a few hundred miles north of Denali and the temp outside the aircraft was roughly -70 degrees Fahrenheit, the windows were frosting up, it was intense. The only time we flew over water was for about 2 mins over the Bering Straight.

[barrylunch]

“Because the Earth is spherical a straight line is not necessarily the shortest distance between two points“… what? I guess you’re referring to cartographic projections vs. great circle distance, but that has nothing to do with flying “curved routes“ to stay close to land.

[Taooflu]

Flat earthers must get places faster 😂

[richardjones]

You make it sound like airlines themselves decide not to fly over the open ocean. But isn't it true that planes with only two engine such as the 777 and most other international flights are required to always be within two hours of a diversion airport in the case of engine failure? That would preclude them flying over the open ocean, and not buy their own choice

[danielroque]

I live in Hawaii, have no choice but to fly over the Pacific Ocean