Correct me if I'm wrong, I have read the FAQ and it does not address the flight time problem in any way. In fact, the FAQ does not contain the word "flight" if the search is working.
A fair point, I was being too harsh. Let's substitute "I didn't read the FAQ" with "I didn't do basic research" for the sake of accuracy. The sentiment stands.
This may not be the right place for the discussion on flight times but I have seen the question asked many times and never answered. How do you explain it when flights between South Africa and Australia take the amount of time they would if plotted on a globe? If plotted on any flat earth map in the Wiki / FAQ they would take much longer unless the aircraft could exceed it's posted speed and fly supersonic.
The map everyone wants to reference and or criticize doesn't accurately represent longitude. No one makes that claim. The projection is called Azimuthal Equidistant meaning that each line of longitude intersects the lines of latitude at equal distances. It is a projection made on the assumption of the Earth being a sphere, and should not be used beyond basic visualization of how our planet might appear with the North Pole as its center.
What does the map look like to you? Are you saying longitude lines are not a consistent angle? If one goes south of the north pole on East 150 degrees you eventually come to the southeast corner of Austraila. If you do the same on West 70 you will arrive close to the tip of South America. These two points are roughly 5,600 miles or 9,000 km apart. How far would that be on the map you think of? The only flat earth maps I can find show those two points to be about as far apart as any two can.
I am not asking this to criticize but to understand more about FE theory.
The distances from point to point are fairly well established.
Edited for typo