Flight Global Express 6000, HUD, EVS/SVS

Time lapse of a flight from the cockpit of a Bombardier Global Express with view through a Head-up Display (HUD). It shows how the horizon drops with altitude in different phases of the flight. The Enhanced flight vision system (EVS) of the HUD is used to display the earth in bad visual conditions. It shows where the real horizon is with respect to eye level.

Flight Path Vector on Descent points to Horizon 3° below Eye Level

View through the Head-up display on a descent of a Bombardier Global Express Jet. The eye level line of the HUD is clearly above the horizon. The jet descends on a 3° flight path angle down. The corresponding flight path vector on the HUD points at the horizon. This means the horizon is 3° below eye level or true level.

FlightRadar24 Satellite based aircraft tracking now available to all users

As the first flight tracking service to integrate satellite-based ADS-B into a public platform in 2016, we’re proud to announce we’re also the first to make space-based ADS-B data available to all users. All our users will see most flights tracked via satellite and we also offer additional specialized space-based tracking data for our professional customers.

Radarbox gives access to older flights for non-registered users.

See also: Space Based ADS-B Coverage

Direct Flight Qantas QFA14 Buenos Aires to Darwin

This direct flight over 9,225 miles (GC route 9,115 miles) took 17 hours 50 minutes, which gives an average speed of 450 kt (517.3 mph). The flight departed direction south, passed over Antarctica and arrived from the south at Darwin. The wohle flight was tracked and recorded on flightradar24.

On a flat earth, using the Gleason map, the shortest distance would go over the North Pole and the distance would be an unreachable 15,648 miles and would take 30 hours 37 minutes flying at a speed of 450 kt.

Note: 450 kt is relatively slow. The flight had an average head wind of 50 kt, which gives a TAS of 500 kt.

Creating Flight Plans for Flat Earth

This App lets you create a Flight Plan based on the Flat Earth Model. The flight plan is then plotted on the Flat Earth model and on the Globe Model. The Flat Earth flight plans do not match the distances and headings an airplane flies in reality. The plot on the Globe Model shows that the Flat Earth flight plans do miss the destinations sometimes thousands of km.

Pan Am Airlines Flight 50 over North and South Poles 1977

On October 30, 1977, Pan Am 747SP "New Horizons" (N533PA) landed after flying over both North and South Poles in a record setting time of 54 hours, 7 minutes. This "Pan Am Flight 50" celebrated the 50th anniversary of Pan American Airlines. As documented in this historic film, the flight lasted from October 28-30,1977. It started at San Francisco/SFO and had three stopovers at London-Heathrow Airport, Cape Town International Airport, and Auckland Airport.

Analysing Aircraft Flight Paths correctly. Flat Earth or Globe? Where do they make sense?

I see many Flat Earth sites trying to understand why the flight paths are curved on a Flat Map.

The answer is simple - because a Flat Map is a distortion of the true shape of the Earth which is a Globe. Flight paths plotted accurately on a Globe make perfect sense.

The Day The Sun Stood Still on Flight QF63 SYD-JNB

GreaterSapiens made a flight around the Globe. With his GPS device he recorded the whole flight. This video is about the flight from Sydney to Johannesburg. Because the Great circle route passes very near Antarctica and because the circumference of the earth along a latitude line there is so short, the airplane was fast enough to follow the sun for some hours.

Artificial Horizon self corrects in flight

This video proves an aircraft Artificial Horizon will rapidly correct alignment errors in roll and pitch. It has self correcting mechanisms that will constantly keep it aligned to the local level. The corrections occur at the rate of 2-4 degrees per minute. For the Gyro to remain level as an aircraft flys over the curved Earth at 450 Knots only one degree of correction is needed every 8 minutes.

GPS worked fine all the way from Australia to Hawaii

This video shows my Bad Elf Pro GPS recorded a seamless log of the flight from Sydney to Hawaii. GPS works fine everywhere.

It seems many people are confusing the information they see on flight trackers like FlightAware and Flight Radar. These trackers can rely on ground based installations that receive information from the Aircraft, Radar and ADS-B. When the aircraft flies out of range of a ground station it will appear to "drop off the radar" on these simple flight trackers. The GPS is a one way system that provides location information to the aircraft and pilot. It has no tracking capability at all.

GPS works fine everywhere in the world.