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.
@MartiusCoriolanus7 ай бұрын
He says the great circle is the shortest route "by definition". That's not an explanation.
@JovenJB11 ай бұрын
Excellent explanation! Not too mathematical but practical.
@747-pilot Жыл бұрын
Wow! This Robot-man did a great job explaining these concepts! 😂
@mikjackson1 Жыл бұрын
Great video, now Im totally clear on the differences and it makes complete sense. Thank you!
@jaidmulla8 ай бұрын
Just simply you explain man good HATSOFF😊👍
@MegaCaptsparrow Жыл бұрын
Perfect ! This is how things should be explained!👍
@jakubtrela1680 Жыл бұрын
Wow, you helped me a lot. Thank you for your content.
@steveducati99621 күн бұрын
Excellent explanation, thanks
@sophiealoni52292 жыл бұрын
Well explained, good video thank you
@mouradrezig91016 ай бұрын
It’s was very good explanation thank you very much
@riyankasaha2565 Жыл бұрын
What an explanation ! Loved it.
@komisanchiefcommander2 жыл бұрын
It's so good to refreshed the old subject. Thank you!
@brianle66762 жыл бұрын
It’s really useful presentation for me and thanks Sir! From 🇻🇳!
@andreweppink4498Ай бұрын
Thx. I'd not understood wha a ruumb was. Now l can easily see that rhumb segments are best to closely approximate Great Circles. Now l know!
@tamannasafa87753 ай бұрын
Great content.
@envitech022 жыл бұрын
Excellent tutorial!!! Oh where were you during my pilot student days??
@madeelajmal61112 жыл бұрын
Great Work Sir. Your Videos Help Me Alot❤️
@JessyP-u6q3 ай бұрын
Thank you Great circle
@ianjohnson1249 Жыл бұрын
Such a great channel, so helpful
@Kilgurt8 ай бұрын
Excellent! Thanks!
@neelamtollum4860 Жыл бұрын
It was very helpful thanks
@Hans_MagnussonАй бұрын
Just the obvious observation. We have past the era of Columbus, and we have great navigation tools such as the GPS in combination with automation of navigation in three dimensions plus the time domain…! It’s rather easy to navigate the great circle with today’s modern equipment! But yeah, the theory and manually finding the correct waypoints is a task for the dedicated person
@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.
@karhukivi5 ай бұрын
You're right, but very few people use those terms correctly, like the term "exponential"!
@sephefox5 ай бұрын
@@karhukivi true, but since this video styles itself as presenting geoscience concepts, I feel it should be correct.
@karhukivi5 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.
@sephefox5 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.
@VictorLacasta9 ай бұрын
So good!
@shrikrishnaaghaw5317 Жыл бұрын
Nice information...sir...👌👌👍👍🙏🏻🙏🏻
@arazali4002 Жыл бұрын
It was more than good thank you so much.
@micromanbusinessrd Жыл бұрын
Peerless Detailing of GreatCircle, *ThanksUp* Sir how about great circle of moon ?.
@heinhtetaung4962 жыл бұрын
I wish you to make more videos.
@BobbieGWhiz6 ай бұрын
Do you also answer calls and tell me which number to push for billing?
@rickdemaria37372 ай 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”
@NyquillaGorillaKillaАй бұрын
I was confused on this. One second it’s straight and the next you have to turn the plane to ride the curve.
@MrManou19732 жыл бұрын
Very helpfull - Great!
@blurossi70992 жыл бұрын
Great content!
@jotaro63907 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
@ali1989turk Жыл бұрын
Thanks ❤
@Favic_T Жыл бұрын
wow I love this
@dhonnytheodoro57542 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot !
@abcxyzindia12692 жыл бұрын
Thank you sir
@orenji44762 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@dirkbuys94988 ай бұрын
Nice video and every time I think I have it it's gone again :-)
@NyquillaGorillaKillaАй бұрын
So on the 3d model the great circle route was actually straight, and the earth is in fact 3d then why wouldn’t you be able to just fly straight then? Just a tad confused.
@arthurburicand7213 Жыл бұрын
thanks
@borissore9249 Жыл бұрын
If it is sphere in calculation, why the great circle trough sphere is not larger then trough equator?
@andreinechaev2955 Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much.
@silo3com2 жыл бұрын
Damn i love this
@rickdemaria3737Ай бұрын
When flying along a great circle route, pilots do not have to turn their planes left or right to stay on course. But, throughout the flight, the apparent compass heading of the plane will change, because the compass is aligned with the meridian great circles, which are not parallel to each other (they intersect in the north and south poles). Here is a video on on the subject. kzbin.info/www/bejne/imWUn5yvbNiVnaM
@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.
@BriansLogic3 ай бұрын
If you want to sty in the air as you're going to require lift to fly ?
@muzikgodАй бұрын
@@BriansLogic You had a choice to learn or not learn, you chose not to learn, conspiracy nut confirmed. :)
@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.
@stevenblack79285 ай бұрын
@@mannyfreeesh5256 You just fell for @randomviewing4340 ' s sarcastic joke😅
@muharamnur55882 жыл бұрын
now, i known
@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"
@GENERAL50CAL6 ай бұрын
The Earth is Flat
@AlexFoxthrot5 ай бұрын
This video proves you wrong but thanks for sharing your personal opinion, kid.
@BriansLogic3 ай бұрын
@@AlexFoxthrot What lies lol you never stop, tell me how often do you dip the nose of the plane below Horizontal during cruising altitude flight ????
@muzikgodАй бұрын
@@BriansLogic Why are you proud of being dumb and ignorant?
@WillSmith639572 жыл бұрын
The Earth is flat anyone who can think knows it
@marsa7600 Жыл бұрын
Not flat.
@dreamdiction8 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.
@23Godsmessage326 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.
@dreamdiction6 ай бұрын
@@23Godsmessage32 It doesn't work if you use a polystyrene globe and a hot thread.
@AlexFoxthrot5 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.
@dreamdiction5 ай бұрын
@@AlexFoxthrot Any inter-continental pilot knows a globe and a thread shows the most direct route.
@AlexFoxthrot5 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?