I have seen a lot of stuff about flat earth vs. round earth. My only question is the flight patterns. Why would I have to take an entire day to fly all the way around the world to Australia? When Australia is seemingly so close to hawaii. Perhaps I’m ignorant to flight regulations. But I haven’t found an actual answer for that.
Answer: the jet stream. There are currents of air going around the earth in different directions at different latitudes, and it’s more efficient for the plane to fly with the winds and not against them. Sometimes you can’t avoid flying against the wind, but it’s more fuel efficient to fly with.
Well that might be true also but i think the main reason is emergency landing locations. You have to fly over areas where if something happened, you could land somewhere near or someone could come quick enough to save you.
I have seen a lot of stuff about flat earth vs. round earth. My only question is the flight patterns. Why would I have to take an entire day to fly all the way around the world to Australia? When Australia is seemingly so close to hawaii. Perhaps I’m ignorant to flight regulations. But I haven’t found an actual answer for that.
Answer: the jet stream. There are currents of air going around the earth in different directions at different latitudes, and it’s more efficient for the plane to fly with the winds and not against them. Sometimes you can’t avoid flying against the wind, but it’s more fuel efficient to fly with.
Well that might be true also but i think the main reason is emergency landing locations. You have to fly over areas where if something happened, you could land somewhere near or someone could come quick enough to save you.