A commercial flight travels 545-575 miles per hour and the average altitude according to regulation must be around 40,000 feet or around 8 miles. The earths curvature of 500 miles is 31.70 miles.
What is the rate of maintaining a level of the average altitude of aircraft?
OR what is the rate of decent in minutes to maintain the altitude 40,000 feet if the aircraft is traveling at 575 mph and the curvature over a distance of 500 miles is 31.70 miles?
>>7690475
*descent
>>7690478
its not homework.
Homework belongs anywhere but here.
Around 20 miles per hour of descent
0
Gravity keeps the plane on a level course.
>>7690566
>gravity meme
even pilots have to correct and gravity is weak enough to allow metal to be able to lift off the ground.
>descent to maintain flight level
what a crap, litterally.
>>7690589
so you are pointing out that they have to remain level for the duration of the entire flight of the horizon without adjusting for curvature?
they would literally fly into space.
>>7690618
>Sitting on a bench
>Earth's rotating, and the bench with it
>Forget to adjust for the curvature of the Earth
>I'm now flying into space
Somebody call NASA, we're gonna be rich
>>7690630
thats not how it works.
Nasa's linear aircraft model uses a flat, non rotating, stationary earth and stationary atmosphere.
