what???? How does this work?

[rudeguy]

It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville, Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo

Someone please help my puny mind understand this.

 

[lxskllr]

Probably a different flight path.

 

[Sa7aN]

rotation of the earth?

 

[Syppion]

As the world turns...

 

[lxskllr]

rotation of the earth?

As the world turns...

Didn't think of that. That's not a variable I'm used to considering :^D

 

[datalink7]

The phased flux actuator of the plane interacts with an unknown nadion singularity changing the magnatomic particle harmonic frequency, creating an auxiliary nano-inversion.

 

[SKORPI0]

Shorter runway, maybe even a treadmill used to takeoff on the fight back.

 

[LTC8K6]

Planes don't fly in straight lines...

 

[CallMeJoe]

It could be the approach and departure patterns of the two airports.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Fucking magnets, that's how it works.

 

[eits]

i'm assuming that airplanes take off on one side of a runway and land on another... if that's the case, it could be that the plane needs to make a huge turn in order to orient the plane in the direction of his destination, thus causing the flight to be approximately 3 miles longer.

 

[eits]

It could be the approach and departure patterns of the two airports.

yeah, he summed up what i was trying to say.

 

[coxmaster]

i'm assuming that airplanes take off on one side of a runway and land on another... if that's the case, it could be that the plane needs to make a huge turn in order to orient the plane in the direction of his destination, thus causing the flight to be approximately 3 miles longer.

Direction of takeoff varies based on wind and other factors..

 

[rudeguy]

so its the Earth's gravitational pull on the magnets under the treadmill?

 

[Bignate603]

Direction of takeoff varies based on wind and other factors..

Yes, typically at our local airport they switch directions partway through the day because of how the wind changes.

 

[rudeguy]

Yes, typically at our local airport they switch directions partway through the day because of how the wind changes.

I live by our airport and it took me a while to figure this out. Some days you will see huge jets descending in the opposite direction of the airport. It looks like they are going to land in the cornfields. 5 minutes later they have circled around and are heading for the airport.

Maybe they should adjust the magnets to save on fuel.

 

[Iron Woode]

Someone please help my puny mind understand this.

same thing as magnets.

 

[Greenman]

The phased flux actuator of the plane interacts with an unknown nadion singularity changing the magnatomic particle harmonic frequency, creating an auxiliary nano-inversion.

That's exactly what I was going to say.

 

[davmat787]

There are roads and highways in the sky that planes fly, or flightpaths. Also, just because the destination is south of you, does not mean the airport is operating to the south. In other words, you might be taking off to the north in Louisville, and have to do a 180 to head south to Amarillo. Whereas the first leg, Amarillo to Louisville, takes off AND lands to the north.

Here is a sectional chart where you can see the flightpaths.

 

[Bignate603]

I live by our airport and it took me a while to figure this out. Some days you will see huge jets descending in the opposite direction of the airport. It looks like they are going to land in the cornfields. 5 minutes later they have circled around and are heading for the airport.

I lived near our airport for a while while I was going to college. Each day I biked to campus in the morning and then back home in the afternoon. I figured out pretty quickly that the wind changed over the course of the day because I was biking into the wind going too and from school which really sucked. It took a little longer for me to notice, but I later realized that the planes switched direction over the course of the day too.