explain equatorial circumnavigation

How can an air plane fly straight following the equator and make it back to place it started in 3 days? In the flat earth model if a plane flew straight say beginning from Mexico wouldn't the plane end up leaving the equator and eventually find themselves in the Antarctic?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimaran
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumnavigation

No, if you keep the north pointer of the compass pointing to the right, you will fly west the whole time and travel in a big circle.  You need to fly south to head towards Antarctica. 

No, if you keep the north pointer of the compass pointing to the right, you will fly west the whole time and travel in a big circle.  You need to fly south to head towards Antarctica.

why is a trip from Argentina to Australia 15 hours while a trip from Venezuela to Thailand is 21 hours? in you model Argentina and Australia are further from each other then Venezuela and Thailand

Quote from: jroa on December 26, 2013, 10:04:04 PM

No, if you keep the north pointer of the compass pointing to the right, you will fly west the whole time and travel in a big circle.  You need to fly south to head towards Antarctica.

why is a trip from Argentina to Australia 15 hours while a trip from Venezuela to Thailand is 21 hours? in you model Argentina and Australia are further from each other then Venezuela and Thailand

I don't know.  I've never flown to any of the places from another one of those places.  However, I assume that you are referring to the mono-polar model.  No one has suggested that it is absolutely to scale.  It just gives a representation of the layout of the continents. 

Quote from: Romrot on December 26, 2013, 10:14:37 PM

Quote from: jroa on December 26, 2013, 10:04:04 PM

No, if you keep the north pointer of the compass pointing to the right, you will fly west the whole time and travel in a big circle.  You need to fly south to head towards Antarctica.

why is a trip from Argentina to Australia 15 hours while a trip from Venezuela to Thailand is 21 hours? in you model Argentina and Australia are further from each other then Venezuela and Thailand

I don't know.  I've never flown to any of the places from another one of those places.  However, I assume that you are referring to the mono-polar model.  No one has suggested that it is absolutely to scale.  It just gives a representation of the layout of the continents.

The real reason is because the earth is round, Thailand and Venezuela are closer to the equator than Argentina and Australia.

So wait, the model you purport as being the be all end all model is not the true model? then what is? why have you no model?

I did not say it did not accurately depict the layout of the Earth.  I said it was not perfectly to scale.  Maybe one day we can get some grant money or something and go around the world making accurate measurements so that we can put this matter to reset.  Until then, some of the distances may not be 100% accurate. 

I did not say it did not accurately depict the layout of the Earth.  I said it was not perfectly to scale.  Maybe one day we can get some grant money or something and go around the world making accurate measurements so that we can put this matter to reset.  Until then, some of the distances may not be 100% accurate.

instead of wasting money like that why don't you study times and distances on airline websites, oh wait because they would say it was round...right right the airline industry would keep the flat earth theory secret because they like wasting fuel and not charging hella more for it.

How do we know that the airlines are flying the shortest distance between points?  After all, they are mistaken about the shape of the Earth.  They could just as easily be mistaken about the shortest path between locations. 

How do we know that the airlines are flying the shortest distance between points?  After all, they are mistaken about the shape of the Earth.  They could just as easily be mistaken about the shortest path between locations.

Oh I assure you they would be trying the most efficient fuels and quickest routes, not for your savings but for their own.

also you could prove the earth flat by taking a few strategic road trips and odometer readings.

How do we know that the airlines are flying the shortest distance between points?

Simple.  To maximise their profit margins.