Actually I was able to confirm that Google Maps shows the same route as he claims in the book. From Chapter 7
OK, fair enough. I just looked up the distance between the two cities, I guess Google Maps in that case shows the shortest route which is the route the planes actually take.
His point in that section of his book is that the flight routes illustrated on Google Maps are false:
OK. So what? He says:
How could [the emergency landing in Moscow] be possible if the earth is supposed to be a sphere and Google Maps presents us the exact flight route going eastward? Well, the answer to this question is that the earth is not a globe!
No, the actual answer to that question is the route Google Maps presents in this case is not the correct flight route. I can't sensibly talk about why that is, but if you look at the route those planes actually take, a stop in Moscow makes perfect sense.
He also says:
Google Maps flight paths do not match reality! It’s when emergency landings happen that we learn the true flight routes of these
flights. This problem is not only found in Google Maps. In fact, all flight tracker websites are connected with one master program which is created by NASA.
Which is bullshit.
"When emergency landings happen that we learn the true flight routes of these flights". What utter nonsense, it took me 5 minutes to find the route these flights take.
"all flight tracker websites are connected with one master program which is created by NASA."
He provides zero evidence for this. But because it backs up your narrative you lap it up.
It tales less than 5 minutes to find out that this is nonsense. The first flight tracker I found shows the route a recent flight between SFO and DXB took:
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ek226#2b45539eIt clearly shows that northern route which multiple other sources said that route takes.
And note the fact that this particular flight did NOT go near Moscow - obviously because of the ongoing situation they kept out of Russian airspace. So you can even correlate data from tracking sites like this with real world events to verify them.
He spends the entire chapter attacking Google Maps.
He does. And he's correct about the flight path. But he leaps to ridiculous conclusions. Again, I don't know why Google Maps' flight plan is inaccurate, but multiple other sources which are more dedicated to flight planning and live tracking sites show the paths these planes actually take and an emergency stop in Moscow makes perfect sense. Google Maps also correctly shows that northern route if you just do "measure distance" between the two cities. So, at best, all he's got is there's a bug in Google Maps. Multiple other sources show the correct flight path, live tracking sites back that up.