Quote Originally Posted by Moodybluebird View Post
Could be a variety of reasons why a certain flight path is taken, such as weather conditions and other air traffic for instance. But the Mexico to Paris flight definitely came up on the tracker and I viewed the aircraft overhead. On another day the same flight might enter UK air space over Cornwall or Mid Wales and would not be visible from Cardiff.
Is it because people are familiar with looking at a Mercator map of the world and not realising that a straight line on it between two points is nowhere near the shortest distance involved?

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