Flying around the world.

[Richelieu]

The Core!!!

[Spec]

Originally posted by Lorizael
But how do the dimensions of a circle translate into the sphere(oid) that is the Earth? Because we're certainly not going through its diameter...

Ok....let me get another example. If I fly from Montreal to siberia, why do they fly from east to west instead of goin north directly?

Spec.

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by Spec
If I fly from Montreal to siberia, why do they fly from east to west instead of goin north directly?

Spec.

Who told you they did? I'm not sure it's directly north, but they do take the shorter northerly route.

[Spec]

Originally posted by Richelieu
I could have made some money on this.

Ok Richelieu, j'vais te l'expliquer en francais puis tu me reponderas...la on va se comprendre.

Pourquoi est-ce que les avions vol toujors de est en ouest!? Quand on sait tres bien que la distance de est en ouest entre montreal et taiwan est bien plus longue que de nord a sud. Ca marche pas pour L.A a tokyo, mais pour pays du nord a pays du nord, ce serait pas plus efficace? Meme chose pour pays du sud a pays du sud...non?

Spec.

[Spec]

Originally posted by Richelieu


Who told you they did? I'm not sure it's directly north, but they do take the shorter northerly route.

A friend of mine that travels around the world a lot told me they dont.

Spec.

[Ramo]

I repeat, greatest thread ever.

[Ramo]

Spec, can your friend explain how I can fly from Houston to, say, Bogota by going only East or West?

[Kontiki]

Originally posted by Spec


Ok....let me get another example. If I fly from Montreal to siberia, why do they fly from east to west instead of goin north directly?

Spec.

You probably would go north as part of a great circle route. I know that when you fly from Vancouver to London, for example, you go over the Arctic.

[Spec]

Originally posted by Ramo
I repeat, greatest thread ever.

Thanks

Why dont you answer me instead of being such an ass?

I guess you dont know either....

Spec.

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by Spec


A friend of mine that travels around the world a lot told me they dont.

Spec.

Tell him he's wrong. Fuel economy alone dictates that planes always take the shorter route.
On a personal note, i'm from Abitibi - north of Montreal - and i can tell you that the population in our region doesn't match with the numbers of jets we see flying overhead - and that's only when the weather conditions make it possible for us to see them.

[Kontiki]

Originally posted by Spec


A friend of mine that travels around the world a lot told me they dont.

Spec.

That's probably because they don't have direct flights from Montreal to wherever in Siberia you'd be going.

[Kontiki]

http://gc.kls2.com/

[BlackCat]

http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/aero_16/polar_story.html

[Ramo]

You probably would go north as part of a great circle route. I know that when you fly from Vancouver to London, for example, you go over the Arctic.

Not after the terrible Santa Claus wars.

[Spec]

Originally posted by Kontiki


You probably would go north as part of a great circle route. I know that when you fly from Vancouver to London, for example, you go over the Arctic.

You see, I was told differently. That's it, I'll just call Air Canada, they tell me...Why bother asking when you've got people like Ramo and JM that would rather laugh than answer...

Probably cause these kinds of guys were laughed at their whole way threw school and now they are just taking it out on a forum for lack of confidence.

When I dont know something, I am not afraid to ask...But I expect some help, not being laughed at. I never laugh at someone that doesn't know something I know, I answer and hope to help him the best way I can.

I am sorry if I dont spend most of my life on a computer or reading books all the time.

Spec.