Great Circles and Rhumb Lines - Types of Routes

In this video the main characteristics of the great circle routes and the rhumb lines are explained, together with graphic examples and practical applications in aviation.
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[@starpawsy]

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".

[@tamannasafa8775]

Great content.

[@komisanchiefcommander]

It's so good to refreshed the old subject. Thank you!

[@747-pilot]

Wow! This Robot-man did a great job explaining these concepts! 😂

[@MegaCaptsparrow]

Perfect ! This is how things should be explained!👍

[@burak.canbaz]

Great narrative and explanation as usual, thanks a lot.

[@MartiusCoriolanus]

He says the great circle is the shortest route "by definition". That's not an explanation.

[@riyankasaha2565]

What an explanation ! Loved it.

[@JovenJB]

Excellent explanation! Not too mathematical but practical.

[@mikjackson1]

Great video, now Im totally clear on the differences and it makes complete sense. Thank you!

[@jakubtrela1680]

Wow, you helped me a lot. Thank you for your content.

[@ianjohnson1249]

Such a great channel, so helpful

[@user-hm2gb6pm6b]

Thank you
Great circle

[@sophiealoni5229]

Well explained, good video thank you

[@madeelajmal6111]

Great Work Sir. Your Videos Help Me Alot❤️

[@brianle6676]

It’s really useful presentation for me and thanks Sir!
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[@Kilgurt]

Excellent! Thanks!

[@jaidmulla]

Just simply you explain man good HATSOFF😊👍

[@MrManou1973]

Very helpfull - Great!

[@blurossi7099]

Great content!

[@neelamtollum4860]

It was very helpful thanks

[@mouradrezig9101]

It’s was very good explanation thank you very much

[@user-el2xo8kz1j]

So good!

[@arazali4002]

It was more than good thank you so much.

[@dhonnytheodoro5754]

Thanks a lot !

[@shrikrishnaaghaw5317]

Nice information...sir...👌👌👍👍🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@Favic_T]

wow I love this

[@orenji4476]

Thank you

[@abcxyzindia1269]

Thank you sir

[@ali1989turk]

Thanks ❤

[@envitech02]

Excellent tutorial!!! Oh where were you during my pilot student days??

[@arthurburicand7213]

thanks

[@silo3com]

Damn i love this

[@heinhtetaung496]

I wish you to make more videos.

[@dirkbuys9498]

Nice video and every time I think I have it it's gone again :-)

[@micromanbusinessrd]

Peerless Detailing of GreatCircle, *ThanksUp*
Sir how about great circle of moon ?.

[@sephefox]

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.

[@karhukivi]

You're right, but very few people use those terms correctly, like the term "exponential"!

[@sephefox]

@@karhukivi true, but since this video styles itself as presenting geoscience concepts, I feel it should be correct.

[@karhukivi]

@@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.

[@sephefox]

@@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.

[@andreinechaev2955]

Thank you so much.

[@jotaro6390]

Please, can anyone tell me where can I find a textbook or document where this thing is written. I need to cute it

[@BobbieGWhiz]

Do you also answer calls and tell me which number to push for billing?

[@borissore9249]

If it is sphere in calculation, why the great circle trough sphere is not larger then trough equator?

[@muharamnur5588]

now, i known

[@963hz]

Can’t the autopilot make the constant adjustments flying the great circle routes?

[@the7engine]

Technically on a great circle route there are no turns…the rhumb line is constantly turning left or right the whole flight.

[@Mr22brian22]

If you want to sty in the air as you're going to require lift to fly ?

[@mannyfreeesh5256]

So the earth isn't flat? Who would've thought... 🤷‍♂

[@randomviewing4340]

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

[@mannyfreeesh5256]

@@randomviewing4340 Wow, you've convinced me...

[@marsa7600]

​@@randomviewing4340 😅😅😅

[@marsa7600]

​@@randomviewing4340 Mercator is being used for nautical charts.

[@stevenblack7928]

@@mannyfreeesh5256 You just fell for @randomviewing4340 ' s sarcastic joke😅

[@leonjacobs3426]

But if I'm traveling from chile to south africa why go to spain first?

[@marsa7600]

Because that route is not profitable for airlines? By the way, there is a direct flight too.

[@max5250]

@@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.

[@ADAPTATION7]

There is theory, and then there is reality.

[@marsa7600]

Yes and this is reality.

[@isthebiblefromheavenisthee4923]

"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!

[@marsa7600]

Ok, the Earth is a planet that is rotating around its axis in 24 hours.. "not a spinning ball"

[@WillSmith63957]

The Earth is flat anyone who can think knows it

[@marsa7600]

Not flat.

[@GENERAL50CAL]

The Earth is Flat

[@Andrea2601M]

This video proves you wrong but thanks for sharing your personal opinion, kid.

[@Mr22brian22]

@@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 ????

[@dreamdiction]

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.

[@23Godsmessage32]

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.

[@dreamdiction]

@@23Godsmessage32 It doesn't work if you use a polystyrene globe and a hot thread.

[@Andrea2601M]

@@dreamdiction Hilarious how people like you tell others how to do their job. You are not a pilot and never did any navigation.

[@dreamdiction]

@@Andrea2601M Any inter-continental pilot knows a globe and a thread shows the most direct route.

[@Andrea2601M]

@@dreamdiction Every pilot, no matter the rating, knows it's a Globe and Great circles are the shortest route so What's your point?