I am not looking to debate this topic; just looking to hear and understand what the state-of-the-art FE response
to this experiment is/would be....

...it strikes me that there is an incredibly simple experiment that one might do to test whether the Earth is flat. And
I am surprised but I don't think it's really been used by either side. Maybe I'm being totally dumb and forgetting
something but what is the FE response to:

Assume someone is standing on the beach, facing the ocean and has a pair of binoculars. Further assume there is
an oil platform some 7 miles seaward. And a cliff that is about 60 feet high. (I'm thinking of a particular spot in
Southern California.)

Here's the whole experiment.

1. I stand at the base of the cliff - essentially sea level - and try to spot the oil platform using my binoculars.
I either succeed or fail.

2. I take the foot path up the cliff and am now at elevation 60 feet and about 10 feet more inland from where I
was before. I use the same binoculars to try and spot the oil platform. I either succeed or fail.

I have two questions and I'm only interested in soliciting answers, you have my word that I won't quibble or
debate the answers. I'm just looking to understand how the FE community would respond.

Q1: Would the FE community expect the outcome of both steps to be the same? In other words, if I can't see
the platform from sea-level then I won't be able to see it from 60 feet up?

Q2: If the results of the experiment showed that I couldn't see it from sea-level but could see it from 60 feet
up, then what would the FE explanation for that be?

Thanks for any information and help!