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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: Sydney to Santiago Flight path
« on: April 11, 2022, 05:08:05 AM »Auckland - Santiago direct with LATAM:
In regards to compass directions as seen on these flights, it seems that these flights make more sense on a Monopole model.
Max Igan reports that, according to his compass, when traveling between Chile and Australia that after takeoff the plane left Chile traveling towards the North-West and then towards the end of the flight it approached Australia from the South-West, despite his passenger terminal map displaying the RE directions. His experience regarding directions is what should generally occur if the flight were traveling on a Flat Earth Monopole Model.
On an RE the flight should leave Chile from the South West and arrive from the North West:
On a Flat Earth Monopole Model the flight would leave Chile from the North West and approach Australia from the South West:
I don't think the plane is necessarily taking a straight line directly over the US, or always makes straight line paths in FE models, but we can clearly see that the compass directions experienced align more with the Monopole Model.
The excuse for this is "magnetic declination", but is is quite curious that it happens to agree with the Monopole model in both areas.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but according to the FE monopole map that you posted wouldn't the plane approach Australia from the North East rather than the South West? That's what the black line on your map shows.