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The flat earth stuff seemed ridiculous until I talked to a pilot in Cheyenne who swore the horizon doesn't curve at 40,000 feet.
That conversation got me digging into flight path data and maps for a few days, and now I'm not sure what to think about the whole globe model anymore, anybody else hit a wall like this?
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black.jake3d ago
Buddy of mine flies cargo out of Anchorage, says he's never once had to trim for a curve in 20 years of flying. Kinda makes you wonder what's really going on up there.
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nancycooper3d ago
Look, pilots get paid to fly planes, not to measure the Earth's curve.
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dixon.iris3d ago
Right, but don't you think if the earth was actually curving at 8 inches per mile squared like they say, a pilot would have to constantly nose down to follow that curve? They fly tens of thousands of miles, so the drop should add up to hundreds of thousands of feet. Wouldn't that show up on the altimeter or the flight computer?
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