Re: Flying weather in New York in March

Morgans wrote:

"Matt Whiting" > wrote


Or use the CSC DUATs automatic router.


Or to get a real visual hands on feel for it...

A globe and a string! <g>



True, but it isn't as easy as you think trying to get a string to wrap around a globe in a great circle route. Once the middle of the string contacts the globe with the ends still in the air, it is hard to wrap it straight down to your route end points without straying a little off of the great circle route. I've actually done this before and if the end points are very far apart, it is easy to be a 50 or more miles off of great circle in the middle of the route. It is a fun exercise though to, as you say, get a feel for what a great circle route is.

Matt
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