This is right on point. There are so so so many people in Flight Simulator forums that have no idea about this. The GPS flies a great circle route, which when you're doing something like LAX - Rome is quite curved, and they keep insisting it is "wrong".
@TC-BCN2 жыл бұрын
Great narrative and explanation as usual, thanks a lot.
@MartiusCoriolanus6 ай бұрын
He says the great circle is the shortest route "by definition". That's not an explanation.
@mikjackson111 ай бұрын
Great video, now Im totally clear on the differences and it makes complete sense. Thank you!
@747-pilot Жыл бұрын
Wow! This Robot-man did a great job explaining these concepts! 😂
@JovenJB9 ай бұрын
Excellent explanation! Not too mathematical but practical.
@MegaCaptsparrow11 ай бұрын
Perfect ! This is how things should be explained!👍
@tamannasafa8775Ай бұрын
Great content.
@jaidmulla6 ай бұрын
Just simply you explain man good HATSOFF😊👍
@jakubtrela1680 Жыл бұрын
Wow, you helped me a lot. Thank you for your content.
@mouradrezig91015 ай бұрын
It’s was very good explanation thank you very much
@user-hm2gb6pm6b2 ай бұрын
Thank you Great circle
@brianle66762 жыл бұрын
It’s really useful presentation for me and thanks Sir! From 🇻🇳!
@riyankasaha2565 Жыл бұрын
What an explanation ! Loved it.
@Kilgurt6 ай бұрын
Excellent! Thanks!
@komisanchiefcommander2 жыл бұрын
It's so good to refreshed the old subject. Thank you!
@sophiealoni5229 Жыл бұрын
Well explained, good video thank you
@user-el2xo8kz1j7 ай бұрын
So good!
@madeelajmal61112 жыл бұрын
Great Work Sir. Your Videos Help Me Alot❤️
@dirkbuys94986 ай бұрын
Nice video and every time I think I have it it's gone again :-)
@ianjohnson1249 Жыл бұрын
Such a great channel, so helpful
@neelamtollum4860 Жыл бұрын
It was very helpful thanks
@rickdemaria373715 күн бұрын
Great circle routes are not “curved” paths. An aircraft flying a great circle route would be flying a straight line to its destination as viewed from above on a lambert conformal projection chart. Due to the navigation aid we use “magnetic” the mag course will continually change, so we are only correcting for the magnetic difference along the route…..but the aircraft does not change heading either left nor right, we only can fly a straight line if we consistently correct for mag differences. It only “looks” curved because you’re not looking straight down on the flight route. You have to look at the route as an orthodromic representation. “3D”
@sephefox Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this video, but I want to point out a problem with your terminology about distances. In the graphic shown at 0:36, it shows large distance measurements labeled as "large scale" and short distances as "small scale". Actually, a large scale map would be one that shows a smaller area, or shorter distances than a small scale map. This is because the word "scale" refers to the ratio between a measurement on the map and the distance it actually represents on the ground. So in a small scale map, of say a continent, would have a ratio of perhaps 1:10,000,000, and a large scale map, of perhaps a neighborhood, would have a ratio more like 1:1000. If you changed the labels to large distance and small distance, it would avoid the issue.
@karhukivi3 ай бұрын
You're right, but very few people use those terms correctly, like the term "exponential"!
@sephefox3 ай бұрын
@@karhukivi true, but since this video styles itself as presenting geoscience concepts, I feel it should be correct.
@karhukivi3 ай бұрын
@@sephefox Yes, I agree. Most people don't understand that the scale is represented as a fraction, they see the area depicted as if it was a magnification.
@sephefox3 ай бұрын
@@karhukivi exactly. 1:1000 or 1/1000, is a relatively large map scale, which would only be able to show a small area, compared to 1:100000 or 1/100000, which would be a much smaller fraction, or smaller scale, and show a much larger area of the earth. Do you work in GIS? Not too many people think about these things, lol.
@envitech02 Жыл бұрын
Excellent tutorial!!! Oh where were you during my pilot student days??
@arazali4002 Жыл бұрын
It was more than good thank you so much.
@heinhtetaung496 Жыл бұрын
I wish you to make more videos.
@shrikrishnaaghaw5317 Жыл бұрын
Nice information...sir...👌👌👍👍🙏🏻🙏🏻
@micromanbusinessrd Жыл бұрын
Peerless Detailing of GreatCircle, *ThanksUp* Sir how about great circle of moon ?.
@blurossi70992 жыл бұрын
Great content!
@MrManou19732 жыл бұрын
Very helpfull - Great!
@BobbieGWhiz4 ай бұрын
Do you also answer calls and tell me which number to push for billing?
@Favic_T Жыл бұрын
wow I love this
@ali1989turk11 ай бұрын
Thanks ❤
@orenji44762 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@dhonnytheodoro57542 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot !
@abcxyzindia12692 жыл бұрын
Thank you sir
@arthurburicand7213 Жыл бұрын
thanks
@jotaro63906 ай бұрын
Please, can anyone tell me where can I find a textbook or document where this thing is written. I need to cute it
@borissore9249 Жыл бұрын
If it is sphere in calculation, why the great circle trough sphere is not larger then trough equator?
@silo3com2 жыл бұрын
Damn i love this
@andreinechaev2955 Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much.
@963hz2 жыл бұрын
Can’t the autopilot make the constant adjustments flying the great circle routes?
@the7engine Жыл бұрын
Technically on a great circle route there are no turns…the rhumb line is constantly turning left or right the whole flight.
@Mr22brian22Ай бұрын
If you want to sty in the air as you're going to require lift to fly ?
@muharamnur55882 жыл бұрын
now, i known
@leonjacobs3426 Жыл бұрын
But if I'm traveling from chile to south africa why go to spain first?
@marsa7600 Жыл бұрын
Because that route is not profitable for airlines? By the way, there is a direct flight too.
@max5250 Жыл бұрын
@@marsa7600 This has nothing to do with profitability, but with international regulations. Namely, an airlines from Spain is not allowed to fly directly from Chile to South Africa, but only from Chile to Spain, and from Spain to Chile. if there was no such regulation, there would be situations where big international airliners would establish lines between profitable destinations from smaller countries, and they would push out smaller domestic airliners.
@mannyfreeesh52562 жыл бұрын
So the earth isn't flat? Who would've thought... 🤷♂
@randomviewing43402 жыл бұрын
It is flat, cannot use a great circle given Mercator projection map is flawed you would need to use the accurate map Gall-Peters projection. Even then we cannot see any curvature and Neil D Tyson admits no one should be able to see the curvature unless you're 128,000 feet! Lies and coverup
@mannyfreeesh52562 жыл бұрын
@@randomviewing4340 Wow, you've convinced me...
@marsa7600 Жыл бұрын
@@randomviewing4340 😅😅😅
@marsa7600 Жыл бұрын
@@randomviewing4340 Mercator is being used for nautical charts.
@stevenblack79283 ай бұрын
@@mannyfreeesh5256 You just fell for @randomviewing4340 ' s sarcastic joke😅
@ADAPTATION7 Жыл бұрын
There is theory, and then there is reality.
@marsa7600 Жыл бұрын
Yes and this is reality.
@isthebiblefromheavenisthee49232 жыл бұрын
"a Plane on a "sphere" - Yeah, let's "pretend" Earth is flat for a while, do all these calculations, and then go back to the "globe" and say Earth is a spinning ball in space!
@marsa76002 жыл бұрын
Ok, the Earth is a planet that is rotating around its axis in 24 hours.. "not a spinning ball"
@WillSmith639572 жыл бұрын
The Earth is flat anyone who can think knows it
@marsa7600 Жыл бұрын
Not flat.
@GENERAL50CAL5 ай бұрын
The Earth is Flat
@Andrea2601M3 ай бұрын
This video proves you wrong but thanks for sharing your personal opinion, kid.
@Mr22brian22Ай бұрын
@@Andrea2601M What lies lol you never stop, tell me how often do you dip the nose of the plane below Horizontal during cruising altitude flight ????
@dreamdiction6 ай бұрын
Load of bull, if you have a globe at home you can use a piece of red thread to show that the direct route is the shortest route.
@23Godsmessage324 ай бұрын
Doesn’t work with a white thread? 😂 clearly you haven’t tried it and saw someone do it in a video and they used a red thread.
@dreamdiction4 ай бұрын
@@23Godsmessage32 It doesn't work if you use a polystyrene globe and a hot thread.
@Andrea2601M3 ай бұрын
@@dreamdiction Hilarious how people like you tell others how to do their job. You are not a pilot and never did any navigation.
@dreamdiction3 ай бұрын
@@Andrea2601M Any inter-continental pilot knows a globe and a thread shows the most direct route.
@Andrea2601M3 ай бұрын
@@dreamdiction Every pilot, no matter the rating, knows it's a Globe and Great circles are the shortest route so What's your point?