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Both of the examples you gave are great circle routes. Today's Af150 route is not, in any way, a modified great circle route. One correction: upon looking agai
by ackfoo 13y ago
Both of the examples you gave are great circle routes. Today's Af150 route is not, in any way, a modified great circle route.
One correction: upon looking again at FlightAware, it is clear that the flight specifically avoided controlled airspace around the Azores, probably because Portugal has strenuously declined to allow overflights that may have certain passengers aboard.
Edit: I mean you are wrong about "happens to miss", that's all. Planning air routes is not a matter of happenstance, and all of the examples you have given run counter to your argument, because they prove that Moscow-Havana flights invariably follow a great circle or a modified great circle route. If you can show me any previous AF150 that follows a flight path that resembles today's flight path, I will concede the point.
- nilkn 13y agoHere are two previous flights which are not in any way modified great circle routes: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFL150/history/20130620/1005Z/UUEE/MUHA https://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFL150/history/20130620/... https://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFL150/history/20130608/1005Z/UUEE/MUHA https://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFL150/history/20130608/...
- ackfoo 13y agoYes. It is extremely interesting that both of those flights started out on a more northerly route over Scandinavia and overflew Great Britain. Today's flight started out on a much mores southerly route, overflying Belrus, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium and France, but avoiding Spain, Portugal and the Azores. Thank-you for the information. I am probably wrong. We'll see.