Use of FET can be a crime

If a pilot of an aircraft used FET to navigate rather than approved charts approved by the FAA in the US, it would be criminal.  Part of the conspiracy?  Would you be comfortable using FET navigation to fly from LAX to AKL?

It would be criminally stupid, that's for sure.

Considering that there is really no such thing as a flat earth, I don't think any pilot would even think of such a thing . A pilot would file a flight plan, use FAA sectional charts and would be tracked by Air Traffic Control Radar .

I have never seen anything in the way of FET navigation in the first place. No way to do it.

Interesting question but in all reality I think it is just unthinkable. Give pilots credit for some sense.

If you are real brave , just call your local FAA Office to see what they would have to say about it. Hope they listen to you and don't hang up.  I worked for the FAA for 40 years.

I was also in the Navy for 4 years. The old QM's and BM's and Officers would probably be a bit more vocal in their expressions of their opinions to your question  if you asked them your question. I know from personal experience that sailors can be a bit colorful in their use of the English Language .LOL

But in the eyes of the flat-earthers, the FAA and the USN are probably in the top ten ring-leaders in The  Great Round Earth Conspiracy. Along with NASA, of course.LOL

It would be criminally stupid, that's for sure.

It's either so stupid it's funny or it's either so stupid it's not funny...for sure.

Incidentally, those FAA Sectional Charts are "flat maps" but they are made from Projections  from the globe , or "Round Earth." Same goes for Oceanic Charts used by the Navy and ship companies . To use a "Flat Earth Map" for any type of navigation  would be criminally stupid...that's for sure.

First find an accurate FE map.

gpssim My apologies if you might have thought I was calling you stupid. Not so.

It was just that if any pilot thought he could navigate by FET it would be stupid.

In the first place, to go to just about any place you need an accurate map or maps.
So far, after countless requests, FE has not been able to provide even one accurate map.

gpssim My aplogies if you might have thought I was calling you stupid. Not so.

It was just that if any pilot thought he could navigate by FET it would be stupid.

In the first place, to go to just about any place you need an accurate map or maps.
So far, after countless requests, FE has not been able to provide even one accurate map.

No worries, I  new exactly what you meant!

First find an accurate FE map.

At this point in time, that's an impossibility.  I've asked numerous times on these forums for a flat earth map from various FE's (even if they disagree on the finer points) but thus far not one single FE'r has been able to do so.  Their usual response is to post an azimuthal equidistant protection (UN logo) of the spherical earth—without apparently realising that they're shooting themselves in the foot by doing so LOL.

This topic makes me laugh all the time. Imagine all the chaos of flight paths? A flight from LA to Perth would take 3 days unless you flew over the North pole, LOL

If a pilot of an aircraft used FET to navigate rather than approved charts approved by the FAA in the US, it would be criminal.  Part of the conspiracy?  Would you be comfortable using FET navigation to fly from LAX to AKL?

What are you saying? That pilots use globes to navigate?

Quote from: gpssjim on January 22, 2015, 10:52:28 AM

If a pilot of an aircraft used FET to navigate rather than approved charts approved by the FAA in the US, it would be criminal.  Part of the conspiracy?  Would you be comfortable using FET navigation to fly from LAX to AKL?

What are you saying? That pilots use globes to navigate?

As you know there is a difference between a flat map of the earth and a map of a flat earth.

Quote from: gpssjim on January 22, 2015, 10:52:28 AM

If a pilot of an aircraft used FET to navigate rather than approved charts approved by the FAA in the US, it would be criminal.  Part of the conspiracy?  Would you be comfortable using FET navigation to fly from LAX to AKL?

What are you saying? That pilots use globes to navigate?

You mean like a gyro?  Yes.

On board computers use FET charts regardless.

On board computers use FET charts regardless.

My little 64 Mooney M20C has no computer.  I'm pretty sure Charles Lindbergh didn't have a computer in his airplane.

Quote from: Vauxhall on January 23, 2015, 01:54:42 PM

On board computers use FET charts regardless.

My little 64 Mooney M20C has no computer.  I'm pretty sure Charles Lindbergh didn't have a computer in his airplane.

Are you flying across the Earth in that piece of junk?

What are you saying? That pilots use globes to navigate?

I sincerely hope that hoppy has posted this comment merely as a joke.  If not, then it's painfully obvious that he's never been on the flight deck of an airplane.  Does the guy think—even for a moment—that pilots might be using a model globe sitting on the control console?

I guess he's never heard of GNSS (global navigation satellite system)?

Quote from: gpssjim on January 23, 2015, 01:59:18 PM

Quote from: Vauxhall on January 23, 2015, 01:54:42 PM

On board computers use FET charts regardless.

My little 64 Mooney M20C has no computer.  I'm pretty sure Charles Lindbergh didn't have a computer in his airplane.

Are you flying across the Earth in that piece of junk?

At the moment, no.  I'm just sitting here waiting to hear about the baby Zaratan in Osaka.  Tell me about the turtles.

On board computers use FET charts regardless.

Please explain.

Quote from: Vauxhall on January 23, 2015, 02:00:14 PM

Quote from: gpssjim on January 23, 2015, 01:59:18 PM

Quote from: Vauxhall on January 23, 2015, 01:54:42 PM

On board computers use FET charts regardless.

My little 64 Mooney M20C has no computer.  I'm pretty sure Charles Lindbergh didn't have a computer in his airplane.

Are you flying across the Earth in that piece of junk?

At the moment, no.  I'm just sitting here waiting to hear about the baby Zaratan in Osaka.  Tell me about the turtles.

If we're to believe a turtle Zaratan, then we may as well believe everything in the book it was written in!

Elves are real. Chimeras are real. Dragons, Brownies (the not so delicious kind), and Cyclopses and Charybdis and stuff

Here's an equation of the level of insanity of FET proposals (Ø) in correlation to the indisputable-ality (Î) of a RET posit.

Î = 9.28E³⁷⁴⁹Ø

Quote from: gpssjim on January 23, 2015, 02:05:16 PM

Quote from: Vauxhall on January 23, 2015, 02:00:14 PM

Quote from: gpssjim on January 23, 2015, 01:59:18 PM

Quote from: Vauxhall on January 23, 2015, 01:54:42 PM

On board computers use FET charts regardless.

My little 64 Mooney M20C has no computer.  I'm pretty sure Charles Lindbergh didn't have a computer in his airplane.

Are you flying across the Earth in that piece of junk?

At the moment, no.  I'm just sitting here waiting to hear about the baby Zaratan in Osaka.  Tell me about the turtles.

If we're to believe a turtle Zaratan, then we may as well believe everything in the book it was written in!

Elves are real. Chimeras are real. Dragons, Brownies (the not so delicious kind), and Cyclopses and Charybdis and stuff

Here's an equation of the level of insanity of FET proposals (Ø) in correlation to the indisputable-ality (Î) of a RET posit.

Î = 9.28E³⁷⁴⁹Ø

I think it should be E³⁰⁰⁰, 3000 being the distance to the Sun in mi.

Quote from: Orifiel on January 23, 2015, 02:30:21 PM

Quote from: gpssjim on January 23, 2015, 02:05:16 PM

Quote from: Vauxhall on January 23, 2015, 02:00:14 PM

Quote from: gpssjim on January 23, 2015, 01:59:18 PM

Quote from: Vauxhall on January 23, 2015, 01:54:42 PM

On board computers use FET charts regardless.

My little 64 Mooney M20C has no computer.  I'm pretty sure Charles Lindbergh didn't have a computer in his airplane.

Are you flying across the Earth in that piece of junk?

At the moment, no.  I'm just sitting here waiting to hear about the baby Zaratan in Osaka.  Tell me about the turtles.

If we're to believe a turtle Zaratan, then we may as well believe everything in the book it was written in!

Elves are real. Chimeras are real. Dragons, Brownies (the not so delicious kind), and Cyclopses and Charybdis and stuff

Here's an equation of the level of insanity of FET proposals (Ø) in correlation to the indisputable-ality (Î) of a RET posit.

Î = 9.28E³⁷⁴⁹Ø

I think it should be E³⁰⁰⁰, 3000 being the distance to the Sun in mi.

+1 post, Bubbles

On board computers use FET charts regardless.

There is no such thing as a flat earth navigation "chart".  Or if there is and I'm unaware of it, could you please cite a reference.

On board computers use FET charts regardless.

Would love see one, fe chart that is. Does the area they cover lie within the ice wall just like you?.