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No need to call anyone an idiot, the photographer is a well known astrophotographer.Yep.
Action80, have you seen the ISS go overhead?
It was a dot, traveling rather fast.
I'm not sure the fact someone has written and published a book is a particularly high bar for quality content.Hey, at least you identified a fact today.
Progress in action, step by step.
You posted a bunch of reasons why flights might be diverted, but zero reasons for why they would be diverted to a place that would make a straight line between the destinations on a Flat Earth Azimuthal map.
No Tom.
I posted a non-exhaustive list of factors considered when choosing where to divert.
That ‘book’ claims that because a flight diverted to airport A instead of airport B, when it clearly (in the author’ mind) should have gone to airport B, that this is evidence of flat earth. No. It’s merely evidence that the flight diverted to airport A.
So still no explanation for why it occurs. Convincing.
I never said transponders are interfering with or plotting false tracking for aircraft. I'm not even going to entertain your obvious troll.
Yeah, you see the data as part of your job.
And it doesn't include data from significant regions.
And, other than some internet jockey making a ridiculous claim, "government could not or would not interfere with that data!" there is no evidence that the government could or would not interfere.
I did look at that very nice PowerPoint slide show from ADS-B marketers.
Fancy, but likely false. Ground-based transponders are still operational (and still maintained for dependable operation) located all across the flat earth, performing the exact same functions.
Can you explain how you think ground-based transponders would interfere with or plot false tracks of aircraft over the ocean?
I don't care what your name is, I don't care where you are from, and I don't believe a single word you typed here on this thread.
I'm done responding to you.
Sorry, you'll definitely have to expand on this one.
In-flight diversions are a lot more complex than just diverting to the ‘nearest airport’, as some (including the author of that ‘book’) seem to think.
Most international airlines use a service based in Phoenix, AZ called MedLink MedAire. This is a 24/7 operation staffed by ER doctors which is the first port of call for aircraft in the air when there’s a sick passenger.
They will advise the airline on the best course of action.
Factors that need to be considered in choosing a diversion airport:
• If it’s a medical diversion, is the patient stable? Is it every second counts?
• Medical care facilities at the airport, and wider area
• Runway length, runway strength, taxiway strength, anticipated aircraft landing weight
• Weather now and forecast
• Air traffic control provision
• Airport fire fighting and rescue cover
• Fuel and aircraft servicing provision (hydraulic fuel, lubricants, steps to reach the aircraft, baggage facilities, towing capability)
• Does the airline have contracts in place with companies at the proposed diversion airport?
• Engineer/mechanic provision
• Flight crew duty hours
• Relief crew position
• Passenger services (immigration/customs)
• Accommodation for crew and passengers
• Distance from aircraft (to be comfortable for passengers, most airliners require about 10nm for every 3000ft of altitude. The descent rate could be increased somewhat if it was an emergency, but you’re still talking nearly 100nm from 35,000ft).
• Passengers on board (do they need visas to land at proposed diversion? Will they be kept on board for hours while the situation is sorted out?).
• Are there vulnerable passengers on board (i.e. people whom one country would be very keen to get their hands on? (for example the relatively recent incident over Belarus)) .
• Political concerns (i.e. A US flight might go another 20-30nm to avoid diverting to Iran and making it to UAE).
These are factors I have just come up with, and no doubt there are many more to be considered.
To second guess why a crew made a decision to divert to a particular airport with no knowledge of most of these factors (as the 'book' does) is naive in the extreme.
Happy to answer any questions on the above, if I can!
You posted a bunch of reasons why flights might be diverted, but zero reasons for why they would be diverted to a place that would make a straight line between the destinations on a Flat Earth Azimuthal map.
Yeah, you see the data as part of your job.
And it doesn't include data from significant regions.
And, other than some internet jockey making a ridiculous claim, "government could not or would not interfere with that data!" there is no evidence that the government could or would not interfere.
I did look at that very nice PowerPoint slide show from ADS-B marketers.
Fancy, but likely false. Ground-based transponders are still operational (and still maintained for dependable operation) located all across the flat earth, performing the exact same functions.
No significant changes to routes commonly used for hundreds of years have occurred
They do not even bother posting fake real time data of FR24 for these supposed AU to SA flights, so the claim gubment cannot fake any of it, or even all of it, at the exact same time, is just nonsense.
In this case, there's no such data to begin with.
Happy to answer any questions on the above, if I can!What do you mean to communicate here:
"Bearing in mind that you or I could buy an ADS-B receiver to feed flight trackers I’m not sure on what basis any government organisation could ‘interfere’ with that data"
New question.. Why are there never any planes in the Southern Hemisphere on flight radar?
Let me guess.. Covid or Putin.
Many reasons.
As has been said, the vast majority of people are in the Northern hemisphere.
Also, there are more population centres further to the north (in the N hemisphere) than they are to the south (in the S hemisphere).
You just have to look at your screenshot of FR24…. Look at the location of the equator, then look at the amount of populated land mass above that dotted line and compare it to the populated land mass below the line.
But given all of that, the effect of Covid is significant. It’s impact on countries such as S Africa, New Zealand and Australia over the past few years, aviation is nowhere near what it was in 2019 when there were more direct flights between S hemisphere cities than there are now. Think about where the flights you think should be in the areas of your question marks would be flying to and from. S. America and Australia/NZ, Aus/NZ and S Africa, S. Africa and S America.
I work at London Heathrow airport, before Covid there were around 30 flights a day (so maybe 6000 passenger seats per day) to New York, because London and New York are incredibly important global cities with many business links and high travel demand.
I don’t think one can compare that city pair to Perth and Buenos Aires.
New question.. Why are there never any planes in the Southern Hemisphere on flight radar?
Let me guess.. Covid or Putin.
