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This is beautiful, It's amazing to see how humanity goes over every part of the planet. Which flights are those few going over the north pole?? [~30fps/OSX-Ch
by nvk 12y ago
This is beautiful, It's amazing to see how humanity goes over every part of the planet.
Which flights are those few going over the north pole??
[~30fps/OSX-Chrome]
- dingaling 12y agoNorth Pole flights are North America and mid-Europe to Japan / China / Korea. Pioneered by Finnair and KLM. One of the ETOPS certification criteria for modern airliners is demonstrable navigation stability and accuracy over the Pole. Navstar GPS is not so useful there; GLONASS is better but inertial platforms still the best at those latitudes.
- Svip 12y agoSAS was the first airline to fly over the North Pole.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Airlines#Trans_polar_route https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Airlines#Trans_po...
- zurn 12y agoThe "about" text says they're geographically correct routes, but direct great circle paths between departure/destination airports of flights. Not to say there aren't any, see sibling comment.
- callumprentice 12y agoI may have misused the term geographically - it's just the shortest, great circle route between 2 airports in the data. As the informed comments say though, there are flights that go over the poles - I think the longest commercial flight for a while was a Singapore Airlines NYC to SIN over the pole.