Why do airlines avoid the Pacific Ocean? You might think it was a safety issue. The Pacific is the largest and deepest of the world’s oceans. If a plane encounters a problem over a seemingly endless and bottomless pond of water, the pilots are going to have a rough time finding a safe spot to set her down.
Guessing that it is a safety precaution wouldn’t be entirely wrong. When planning a route, many pilots prefer to maximize the number of airports along their path. Emergencies are incredibly rare relative to how many planes take to the skies every day. That said, it isn’t the main reason airlines tend to avoid making a straight shot east to west…
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SUMMARY:
– When planning a route, many pilots prefer to maximize the number of airports along their path.
– Excluding special circumstances such as passing through the jet streams or other meteorological concerns, the fastest route is almost always the one closest to a straight line.
– On a 2D map, making a giant rainbow to avoid the Pacific Ocean looks like a much longer route. But since the Earth is a sphere, a straight line is going to look very different in three-dimensional spaces.
– The combination of the two factors, the curvature of the Earth and its extra equatorial width, mean that curving toward the poles is a shorter distance than flying (what seems like on a map) “straight” across!
– Another reason planes will sometimes brave an oceanic voyage is to take advantage of the smoother ride. Even in clear weather, there’s much less turbulence over water than over land.
– The other primary consideration for determining flight paths are air currents, namely the jet streams. These high-altitude air currents exist near the top of the troposphere.
– There are 4 main jet streams, 2 in each hemisphere, and thanks to the Earth’s rotation, they mostly flow west to east.
– Flying with a jet stream can shave several hours off of a trip, but flying into it can slow the plane down considerably.
– It’s also worth noting the risks associated with jet streams. The biggest hazard is a kind of turbulence known as clear-air turbulence, which occurs along the edges of the streams.
– The jet stream mostly affects things tens of thousands of feet in the air, and the curvature of the Earth doesn’t really matter unless you’re traveling hundreds of miles per hour over vast distances.
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23 comments
When was the last time you were on a plane? Where did you go?
Shortest point on 3D curve.. grab a globe
We live at Indonesia and 1 or 2 times I was in an airplane over the Pacific maybe. I didn't really know because I only saw the clouds but I had a globe myself and actually we did go over Pacific ocean 1 or 2 times, and it depends whether the airplane has problems or not. So please think yourself
I have flown many times from Vancouver bc to Sydney Australia. 14 hours of nothing but ocean , it’s amazing and scary
What a science 🔬 class
Australia to Hawaii always crosses the pacific, so do many others.
Earth is too flat
I've been to Hawaii by plane. Must be some short cut they take to avoid the Pacific Ocean that encircles the Island.
Something you could do for another video if the earth is orbiting clockwise and 10,000 planes go to other way does it go non-clockwise the earth not the planes
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My plane went from ny to Paris through the pacific though?
This was so boring
Because Western do not allow it 😂😂
Garuda Indonesia used to fly LAX-Honolulu-BIAK- Jakarta. Honolulu-Biak is a 15 hour leg over the pacific. They stopped flying in in the 2000’s. But they flew it for 30 years.
Vegas
the flat earthers are crying
It because of the moon not spin that it's wider
Yet every pilot will tell you they make no adjustments for curvature of the earth lol
Oh, yeah? Prove that the earth moves west to east at 1000 miles/hour! People say this because they believe it is given because th spinning thing validates it, but science one cannot use circular thinking. Yo cannot use the assumption that the earth spins at 1000 miles , one has to use another observation or logic. This is a rule of scientific methodology.
I'm like B.A. Baracus…"I don't fly sucka"
How do you get to Hawaii and Guam without flying over the Pacific Ocean cz last time I checked I flew from Guam to Hawaii then California so that is over the Pacific Ocean bruh
The Gleason map ( official map of the world) explains it all…. the earth is flat
If we was on a ball spinning in one direction all flights would fly one direction.
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