Comments on: Why Are Great Circles the Shortest Flight Path? https://gisgeography.com/great-circle-geodesic-line-shortest-flight-path/ Geographic Information Systems Sun, 01 Jun 2025 07:52:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Victor Caballini https://gisgeography.com/great-circle-geodesic-line-shortest-flight-path/#comment-391467 Sun, 01 Jun 2025 07:52:26 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=12668#comment-391467 In reply to Victor Luis Caballini.

Hello! Thank you very much! My reply is a little late, but someone found my notebook before I lost it. I had lost your address; I only just found it by chance, and that’s why I’m replying now. Forgive the lack of courtesy, but I thought the address was only in the notebook.

]]> By: Y Sai Ram https://gisgeography.com/great-circle-geodesic-line-shortest-flight-path/#comment-353529 Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:29:36 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=12668#comment-353529 can you say how to prove for shortest path for n dimensional sphere?

]]> By: GISGeography https://gisgeography.com/great-circle-geodesic-line-shortest-flight-path/#comment-337435 Sun, 07 Jul 2024 11:54:48 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=12668#comment-337435 In reply to Victor Luis Caballini.

Hi Victor. In this case, you can use these images. We are the creators of these graphics. Check out our guide how to cite – https://gisgeography.com/how-to-cite/

]]> By: Victor Luis Caballini https://gisgeography.com/great-circle-geodesic-line-shortest-flight-path/#comment-337368 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 22:52:49 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=12668#comment-337368 Please, I want to use your draws in a aerodynamic book for engineering students (in spanish language).

Please, can you report me if I can use it?. In case of yes, wich will be the conditions?

kind regards !!!

]]> By: Rose Eneri https://gisgeography.com/great-circle-geodesic-line-shortest-flight-path/#comment-331594 Mon, 06 May 2024 13:25:23 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=12668#comment-331594 Way to conflate 2 different idioms:
“This paints quite a different story, doesn’t it?”
I think one paints a different picture or tells a different story. How does one paint a story, or tell a picture?
Otherwise, a great article.

]]> By: John doe https://gisgeography.com/great-circle-geodesic-line-shortest-flight-path/#comment-314622 Sun, 07 Jan 2024 20:41:53 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=12668#comment-314622 Buy a globe and figure it out.

]]> By: GISGeography https://gisgeography.com/great-circle-geodesic-line-shortest-flight-path/#comment-299600 Sun, 06 Aug 2023 01:19:47 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=12668#comment-299600 In reply to Donald D Jacks.

You’re definitely on the right path and to use a great circle.

]]> By: Donald D Jacks https://gisgeography.com/great-circle-geodesic-line-shortest-flight-path/#comment-299446 Thu, 03 Aug 2023 20:26:07 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=12668#comment-299446 I’m trying to figure out what flight path an LTA aircraft (Larger than Goodyear Blimp) would take from England to Idaho. It’s part of a novel I’m writing. Any suggestions?

]]> By: Pijush Banerjee https://gisgeography.com/great-circle-geodesic-line-shortest-flight-path/#comment-295756 Wed, 07 Jun 2023 07:12:49 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=12668#comment-295756 I am a layman. Please describe the route from Mumbai to New York and San Fransico to Tokyo through a diagram to show why airlines prefer polar routes?

]]> By: Roland Collins https://gisgeography.com/great-circle-geodesic-line-shortest-flight-path/#comment-292174 Fri, 14 Apr 2023 17:27:08 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=12668#comment-292174 A great circle connecting two points is the shortest distance but it requires frequent heading changes throughout the journey. A straight line (rhumb line) drawn on a Mercator projection map produces the constant compass bearing to follow for the same journey; which is easy to draw and much easier to follow. Over a short distance the difference between a great circle and a rhumb line route is negligible so the simple rhumb line route is used. However, over a very long journey the difference in distance will be quite significant so a great circle route is preferred.

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