Excellent. FlightAware has all four legs of the QQE011 flight, but parts of each one are estimated where the aircraft was out of ADS-B ground-based reception ange.
As the northbound and southbound parts are less than 180 degrees of longitude apart, they actually had to deviate from great circle routes in order to ensure they went directly over the north and south poles. This is evidenced by the obvious turn immediately on reaching both the north and south pole. This added a total of several hundred km to the overall total flown compared to the great circle distance from KTTS to UACC and from FIMP to SCCI. The rules of the challenge were that the northbound and southbound parts of the journey must be at least 120 degrees of longitude apart and the flight must pass directly over both poles. By going exactly over the poles, this ensured that the total distance flown is the same as if the northbound and southbound parts are 180 degrees of longitude apart. From pole to pole, the object is to fly directly north and then directly south with little or no deviation east or west.
You just answered your own question. They went over the North Pole first, then the South Pole over Antarctica and then headed north. Crossing both poles is circumnavigating the Earth. They made the turn otherwise they would be in the middle of the Pacific with no place to refuel.
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Excellent. FlightAware has all four legs of the QQE011 flight, but parts of each one are estimated where the aircraft was out of ADS-B ground-based reception ange.
Florence Gomer I just plugged in their stops and estimated the locations of the poles. Not super accurate but close enough for a visualization
Robert Greenlee ... May well turn out to be more accurate than you might have expected.
@@ace00007 Well you would imagine they took the shortest track between each point.
TheYobbo71 yep
As the northbound and southbound parts are less than 180 degrees of longitude apart, they actually had to deviate from great circle routes in order to ensure they went directly over the north and south poles. This is evidenced by the obvious turn immediately on reaching both the north and south pole. This added a total of several hundred km to the overall total flown compared to the great circle distance from KTTS to UACC and from FIMP to SCCI.
The rules of the challenge were that the northbound and southbound parts of the journey must be at least 120 degrees of longitude apart and the flight must pass directly over both poles. By going exactly over the poles, this ensured that the total distance flown is the same as if the northbound and southbound parts are 180 degrees of longitude apart. From pole to pole, the object is to fly directly north and then directly south with little or no deviation east or west.
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I don't see how you think that is a polar circumnavigation when they made what looks like about a 90 degree turn when they went over Antarctica.
You just answered your own question. They went over the North Pole first, then the South Pole over Antarctica and then headed north. Crossing both poles is circumnavigating the Earth.
They made the turn otherwise they would be in the middle of the Pacific with no place to refuel.
Still didnt prove ball earth @@ace00007
@@ace00007nice glober answer.
#QQE011 thanks for this quick reference
The flight path plan on the one more orbit website show the flight going over Greenland not the North Pole
I'm still waiting for your explanation of how you adjust for the Coriolis effect when you're flying
@@garywybenga4188 Explained to you on another video comment section. The fact you don't understand how flight tracking sites work is not our problem.