Hi,
I know that the earth must be flat, but recently I went on a trip to china and something weird happened. Our trip was from New York to Berlin to Hong Kong, and returning to California then New York. I kept a compass with me and stayed awake to watch it so that I could prove my friends wrong, but it showed that we went in one general direction the whole time. What?!?!?
Some of your fellow FE'ers claim that they don't know the layout of the map of the Earth...in which case, you might argue that this is merely a reflection of the appalling lack of geographic knowledge about the Flat Earth.
Certainly if you take either the unipolar or bipolar maps - I'm reasonably sure that if the compass points along parallel to the weirdly shaped lines of longitude - then everything works out on your flight.
But then we have to ask the deeper question. If compasses point towards the north and south lines of a magnetic field, how on earth are these bizarrely curved lines of magnetic force being formed?
Worse still - why is the North pole of your compass not pointing more or less towards the "pole star" - Polaris? That can't really be happening because sailors of old used both a compass AND the stars to navigate - and they'd have been horribly confused if their compass didn't do that.
So the underlying problem here is a little different than you think.
But getting a straight answer in a Flat Earth world depends on you having a map - and unfortunately, the FE "experts" here don't have one. They are, in every sense, clueless about it.
There is a reason for that. Every time they make a possible map - we RE'ers point out a bunch of horrible flaws in it. So rather than giving up on the Flat Earth - they simply give up on the map. It's a lazy approach - but it seems to make them happy.