potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 1 month agoWho's gonna tell LaGuardia that's not how it works?lemmy.fishimagemessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageWho's gonna tell LaGuardia that's not how it works?lemmy.fishpotentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 1 month agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squarepotentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fishOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoThe line from LaGuardia to Toronto is shown as a straight line, but because it’s a projected map and the plane is flying on a sphere, the flight path would actually look curved on the projection.
minus-squareocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoHuh? This complex description is the joke???
minus-squareedgemaster72@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoAnd all those little © notices at the bottom mean this is of course the fault of someone at LaGuardia and definitely not some other organization(s), nope, couldn’t be /s just in fucking case
minus-squareJASN_DE@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoThis is a simple start - destination line. No one cares about the actual flight path.
minus-squareSkunk@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 month ago Here you are: KLGA/04 N0452F380 DCT GAYEL Q818 WOZEE LINNG3 CYYZ/15L And OP is wrong, the flight is too short to use great circles (376nm gnd dist).
What’s “it”?
The line from LaGuardia to Toronto is shown as a straight line, but because it’s a projected map and the plane is flying on a sphere, the flight path would actually look curved on the projection.
Huh? This complex description is the joke???
And all those little © notices at the bottom mean this is of course the fault of someone at LaGuardia and definitely not some other organization(s), nope, couldn’t be
/s just in fucking case
This is a simple start - destination line. No one cares about the actual flight path.
I do.
Here you are: KLGA/04 N0452F380 DCT GAYEL Q818 WOZEE LINNG3 CYYZ/15L
And OP is wrong, the flight is too short to use great circles (376nm gnd dist).
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