Key mistakes at
4:46 to 6:43. He calls a 2D map a "globe earth" map. No such thing as a "globe earth" map.
It is clear what he is referencing.
First of all, I want to thank you for taking the time to patiently answer so many people. And I hate to weary you. But this point must be clarified. The map he is using is a known distortion, as are all paper/2D maps. No map is even close to accurate beyond the continental level. For you to imply I am quibbling when I object to his calling it a "globe earth" map worries me. I thought you understood mapping better than that based on what I have seen here.
Are you saying that he is drawing the correct shortest Round Earth route using that map? I shared the correct shortest Round Earth route using Google Earth. I must repeat that a) there is nothing special about the particular map he is using and b) no map can be drawn that will give correct routes and distances for general purpose universal navigation. The screenshots I shared are only good for the respective route in question.
21:08 He says these airplane ranges can't make the flight from Sydney to Santiago:
Quantas 747-400 8357 miles
787-800 Wikipedia 8786 miles
Boeing 9200 miles
But the globe measurement is 7,000 miles from Sydney to Santiago. The airlines must be using a factor of safety for adverse conditions.
He's looking at Sydney to Buenos Aries, not Sydney to Santiago.
I accept the plausibility of what you are suggesting. That does not bother me. But the fellow in the video seems to be fundamentally uninformed about globe routes and distances. Here are a couple of
shots from Google Earth that apply here:
https://preview.ibb.co/fy7jAG/taiwan_la.png
Note that Anchorage is not a big detour.
https://preview.ibb.co/fXqt4b/sydney_santiago.png
Note that New Zealand is not a big detour.
Right. Those locations are possible detours on the Flat Earth monopole map, but not the globe. That is what he is saying.
This is similar to when the plane flying between Taiwan and LAX made a detour to Alaska when a woman went into delivery. That detour makes sense on the Flat Earth monopole map, but not on a globe.
I know you must be going in a million different directions like we all are. And I can't expect you to give full attention to every post on these forums by some drive-by yayhoo like me. So I don't hold your misconstruals here against you. But I was saying the exact opposite of what you inferred. I will say it again:
The random 2D map that he selected to draw on is not a 3D globe map in any sense. It might have randomly showed the correct route and distance from Taiwan to LA, or it might more likely (as it does) show a totally wrong route and distance. The screen shots I shared from Google Earth, on the other hand, are custom projections of the Round Earth specifically for the route in question. The distance is not scalable, but the routes are correct. They show that New Zealand and Anchorage are not big detours from these respective Great Circle (Round Earth) routes.
In fact, there very well may be another factor in play. For all we know, the air traffic controllers see fit to favor overland routes, and if it doesn't add appreciably to fuel and time, maybe they swing their routes slightly toward land (which would put the Taiwan-LA flight even a bit closer to Anchorage). This is only a speculation. I am sticking with shortest distance routes for the purposes of discussion.