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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Why is there no standard map of the earth?
« on: March 01, 2021, 12:15:11 AM »You need to learn how flights work. Airliners use filed flight plans and radar communication with air traffic control. The filed flight plans are based off of years of historic data collection. Nothing here proves the shape of the earth.
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We seem to have an oxymoron here; flight plans are based off years of historic data collection (i.e. the distance and vector relationships between all the world's airports), but this tells us nothing about the shape of the world? Some would argue that this tells us everything about its shape.
And maybe we need to look again at the role of Air Traffic Control. The safe navigation of an aircraft is entirely the responsibility of its captain. He (she) decides the destination and is responsible for ensuring sufficient fuel and adequate means of navigation. He is assisted in safely making the journey by ATC.
In this last week, a Boeing of Icelandair carried a group of scientists between Munich and the Norwegian blue-ice Troll airstrip in Antarctica, and return. It's unlikely that Icelandair has done this before, but they did it by knowing the relative positions of Munich and Troll. And don't expect much intervention from ATC, as much of the South Atlantic is beyond the range of VHF radio and radar.