At cruise altitude of 40,000/50,000 feet no pilot ever noses down to account for the curvature of the earth even at 350 miles per hour.
If the Earth Was a Globe
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Re: If the Earth Was a Globe
Look up all government/military flight and navigational manuals and they all say assume earth to be a flat horizontal plane with no curvature.
At cruise altitude of 40,000/50,000 feet no pilot ever noses down to account for the curvature of the earth even at 350 miles per hour.
At cruise altitude of 40,000/50,000 feet no pilot ever noses down to account for the curvature of the earth even at 350 miles per hour.
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