Answers to FAQ: 1. The app I'm using for location and direction is GPS TEST. 2. The other app is Google Maps, and I downloaded areas for offline use. 3. The route we took is known as the "Great Circle" route. Google it. If you visualize the Earth as a round ball, it makes sense, as the shortest distance between these city pairs is nearly over the North Pole. 4. Flat Earthers: Your comments give me some good laughs, but it's clear that no amount of explaining the obvious is going to work to change what is, essentially, a psychological condition. 5. The exact path this flight (and all flights) follows depends not just on the shortest distance, but also expected winds, which is why the flight path sometimes doesn't go as far north as it did on this particular day. 6. Hindu meal, yeah, it's a thing you can actually order, along with Kosher or Halal or low fat, low salt or any of about a dozen choices. I order it because a lot of times you get a slightly better meal with a special meal, and I try to avoid meat while flying since it can sit heavy in your stomach. But often the "Hindu" meal is just one of the regular meal choices that just doesn't have beef. 7. The person next to me is my teenage daughter, so please be nice. 8. I used a Sony A7R3 with a 12-24 lens for this video. 9. I wanted to get more footage of the Canadian Arctic, but after struggling to stay awake until the plane reached its northernmost point, I finally fell asleep and woke up a couple hours later when we were already over Northern Alberta. 10. We got really lucky with the weather. I've done about 20 flights over the polar regions and never had such consistently clear skies coupled with having the lucky timing of the flight being entirely in daylight. This flight was special. 11. What's it actually like to sit in an economy seat that long? You go from "this isn't so bad," to "hmm, this seat is kind of hard," to "oh crap this is really uncomfortable," to "when is this torture going to end?" to "hmm, I guess I can handle this, let me just close my eyes." 12. Yes, the plane smells like 350 people all farting at once, but they pass through the cabin with air fresheners a couple of times. #truth.
1 & 2, thanks for that info...4, awesome response...6, I usually order kosher ( I'm Christian), yes you get a better and a fresher meal....11, the one question I had. Great video
@@ceciliateo9939 He just proved flat earth with this flight. There is no "great circles" when flying a plane. They all fly as straight from point A to point B as possible, unless there's some disturbance ahead or no-fly zones.
People don't grasp how large the planet is until they fly. Especially a flight like that. And it's amazing seeing all the land that no one has probably ever been near.
Well I got the other impression from flying. Now it feels that our planet is pretty small. Flying all over it and around it is now pretty common and it's quite fast considering how long it took to travel anywhere in previous centuries. I feel like our planet shrinks as we're moving faster and faster :) Everything is relative as Einstein showed us :D I guess whole other dimension is to be in space or on the orbit around Earth. For example in the ISS it only takes 90 minutes to circle our planet. You're getting entirely different perspective of life or mankind. Every single story that ever happened, every single person who ever lived, all races, wars, empires, everything happened on that "small" ball underneath you. And seeing Earth from the Moon, that just had to be surreal.
Jack White you should search on RU-vid for 'Concorde around the world'. This was a special charter commission flight on a BA Concorde, that took place just before it retired, where Concorde takes off from NYC, then flies east west around the Equator route (and getting very special permission from the Canadian government allowing it to fly over mostly uninhabited parts of Canada to land on the west coast in record time (something like 3 hrs 50m) - right back to NYC in just the most ridiculous time, that it truly did make the planet feel very small indeed. The route was, New York City to Vancouver, Vancouver to Hawaii, Hawaii to Fiji, Fiji to Tahiti, Tahiti to Australia, Australia to Singapore, Singapore to the Philippines, the Philippines to East India, East India to north west Africa, and then it got special permission to fly up through the Red Sea and along the Mediterranean at supersonic speed to land in Venice, and then got special permission to fly supersonic around the southern tip of Spain and on to New York. The total flying time was something like 32hrs and 56 minutes, to fly the entire circumference of the globe. Obviously it wasn't a straight line. It could never be, because Concorde only had a range of just under 4000 miles, so obviously it had to follow a carefully planned route. But to make it exciting and interesting for the charter passengers onboard (who had paid a fortune for the trip), the route took in exciting tourist destination cities & locations so that the passengers could stop off for a few days in each location for a tour and some five-star comforts and soak up the culture. The total distance flown, was around 23,985 miles, achieved in a little under 33 hours! That though, is not the impressive thing. The impressive thing is that the record for a commercial passenger aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth, also achieved by Concorde, but this time an Air France charter in 1995, flying a more convenient and quicker route (also with special permissions by the various world authorities), fighting the clock all the way, with superquick refuelling and landings and takeoffs, all achieved in superfast time with air traffic control sectors on the entire route in on the record so that it could come straight into the various airports without having to hang around and holding patterns.. .. flying a total distance of 22,858.8 miles - was achieved in 31hrs 27m 49s. I think that's a record that's going to stand for quite some time, regrettably. Sadly, that plane is no more so people can't experience it. Hopefully supersonic travel return soon..
Aircrafts are amazing machines. I'm just thinking about the thousands of moving parts, many of them doing repeated motions thousands and thousands of times throughout that 17 hr flight without breaking down. And that is just 1 of many flights in its lifetime. Amazing.
And most of these planes pretty much run 24/7, too. Some of the hardest working machines on the planet. Simply astonishing things, that humans have created.
Deserts, snow, ice, cities, oceans, forests, mountains. I would make schools take this flight with students and consider it as a geography lessons, you can basically see the whole world in few hours. It would cost a lot, but students would understand many things immediately.
I agree. But I've done flights like this about a dozen times and this is the first time I had great weather and sunlight the whole time (owing to weather, the time of year and the departure time all together). But still, take a look at some of the comments people are leaving. It's quite incredible that so many people don't understand the geometry of a sphere. Seriously, have a look. I'm done responding to all the "why not just head west instead of north?" questions.
I think people don't understand it because mankind has been falsely taught how the Earth looks like on the desk maps. It confuses people of all age. If schools used an educational desk globe instead of flat maps from early childhood, they would not ask dumb questions.
I literally LOL'd at "there's always some guy pacing the aisle the entire flight." That's so true🤣🤣🤣 But while we laugh guess who wont be getting a blood clot in there leg on that flight? 🤔
Initially, I thought this is just another of the long flight videos on YT, but I'm glad I watched this video. Found it very interesting. Good description and you answered 2 of my questions. Thanks for sharing.
@@aleksi9504 That's what we're told. But using our OWN eyes, we can't tell. We could be anywhere right now. I bet if they told us we're on the back of a giant turtle, you guys would believe that too 🤦♂️ You people are way too gullible.
*@IR0N360* Ok...fair enough......but with just a little leavel headed thinking , the Universe is a proven entity. There''s our Sun , one of the countless many stars in the night sky. There's our Moon and our solar system planets . The Milky way .....very clear in some parts of the world with little light polution. For past decades ,way before all that "fake news" hoopla, there were already photographs of the Andromeda Galaxy (our sister galaxy). It's good to question things , but don't drag it into the ridiculous.... You might as well question your own butthole just because you haven't been there....... You run the risk of sounding like a flat Earth hick , who even while flying over the arctic circle and North Pole stubbornly persists our home planet is pizza shaped ,and we all stroll on the upper crust .....where the Moon provides the cheese.
From Spain to Japan (with Iberia) it took for me 17 hours as well, the whole flight I was looking to the window and listening the kill bill sountrack while driking coffee, was amazing.
Apart from the amazing view, I adore this beautiful B777. They fly continuously for such long hours in different weather conditions and yet have an amazing life of 20-25 years.. an amazing feat of fine engineering. We're blessed to be living in this era where fossil fuels and engines exist. Wonder what the future holds. Will there be enough power to even power an electric airplane for such long hours?
more importantly, will the 779x have the same flaws as the 787, and will the engine work without flaws over a lengthy period of time... I hope it will be like the 777 as we know it now.
There was a whole "children's" section. But that's what noise-cancelling headphones are for. Seriously, that's the #1 most important item to take on any long flight.
Wow 17 hours flying!!! it's a very very long flight , the view of the landscape from the plane was so beautiful and i love it, i really love this video.
I flew from Los Angeles to Saigon, Vietnam and that consisted of a 13.5 hour flight from LA to Seoul, Korea and then another 6.5 hour flight from Seoul to Saigon! Loved every minute of it!
Thanks Barb. I got lucky on this flight, clear skies and a very northerly route, which doesn't happen every time. I've done probably a dozen polar flights and this one had by far the best views.
Thanks buddy. Yeah we got lucky on the views. I've done lots of polar flights and usually there is haze over Central Asia and clouds over the arctic but this was clear and sunny the whole way.
Oh that's very comfortable! We have similar weather in Chicago, USA this week. I thought it would be even colder. Best wishes. Next time you see a jet flying over, just imagine the people up there saying hello, as I will.
@@GetOutsideYourself, we have this warming) Usually, the temperature is much lower. -40 °C and below. Most of the year the temperature is below -30 °C . Best wishes. :) Sorry for my bad english. I use translator.
A very Nice video journey bro through the polar regions and it was for me the first time watching these regions so closely, Thanks a lot for the video and Cheers for all upcoming journeys.
I am a nervous flyer. I get nervous when Plane is over Atlantic or Pacific Ocean, in the middle of nowhere, fearing the worst. But as soon as plane enters in land area of any country, I feel relieved even when I know I am still at 37-38000 feet and still anything can happen. Lol. I know all that “within 2.5-3 hours of landing area in case of emergency” ( ETOPS rating etc) but still oceans scare me.
Flying is still the safest transportation according to research and statistics. So as it may look scary your fearful thoughts are unlikely to come true. :)
TheYay1995 As i said in my mssg, I know technicalities but it’s all mental block which creates fear. Statistics show that flying is safe but how many ppl survive In a crash (if it happens) as compared to if a car stops midway or trains stop due to engine malfunction. Chances of survival is the factor hear not how many ppl fly etc. it’s just that more ppl go on road hence more fatalities than flying
Am a nervous flyer to but over land and sea i disagree about being the safest way to travel turbulance and Air pockets are not very nice you feel safer on the ground
You did an absolutely amazing job. I loved the fact that you used GPS TEST App and guided us through out the video. I have noted down a few of the important places, will definetly do some geo spherical research. Thansks man. Cheers.
Thanks buddy. More coming this year. I'm flying some interesting routes. The thing that made this one so interesting was the luck of having good weather, sunlight the whole way, and a beautiful path.
2:23. A Jet Airways on the last legs of its International. Very touching. And also I didnt see sunset anywhere since the flight was going against time, i.e, east to west. Therefore it was always evening and it was following the track of sunlight through out. Wow!
Hats off to you sir and Ty for sharing such an interesting flight...I had my first flight from Baghdad international airport to Amman..Jordan then to JFK NY, it took me 17 hrs and some change from Amman to JFK.. Then I had another 12 flights...I had to say..the landing is pretty nice from my experience.
That's an 8000 mile flight, in a 775,000 pound aircraft that holds 48,000 gallons of Jet A, which powers the largest commercial jet engines ever built, each capable of 115,000 pounds of thrust. The numbers stagger the imagination.
I know, and we just take it for granted and bitch that our seats don't recline enough (they don't). It is pretty amazing how we can fly blissfully over the top of the Earth at 600 mph and get to the other side in less than a day. And it's cheaper than it's ever been.
I recently took a photograph of an Etihad plane as it was leaving LAX to go back to Abu Dhabi. I took the shot at 4:30pm LAX time, and it was STILL in the air when I woke up at 6:30 the day after.
Great video! The routes of these planes use to be above the north of Sweden on the way to USA, and I use to look at them through binoculars. And almost 17 hours! The longest flight I have experienced was Stockholm-Miami (and back) and that was around 10 hours, and that was a long flight... Riding in comfort on the thin air(weighing several times more than a timber truck) at around 10km above the earth surface while moving around 1km each 4 seconds; these machines truly belong to the most awesome products of the scientific development!
I have flown from Abu Dhabi to Mumbai and now living in Dubai. I wish I could travel and see the world in this way. Ready to take longer journeys than this one. I love Geography. Hats off and thanks for the video ☺
my longest flight was from Phoenix, AZ to New York, NY to Amsterdam, then finally Amsterdam to Tel Aviv, Israel. 17+hours combined and i got only one hour of sleep throughout that entire trip but the scariest part for me was going over the Atlantic Ocean, i couldn’t imagine going over the Pacific. definitely worth it tho!
They usually don’t go over the pacific as they keep a nice distance from land airports. I’ve traveled twice where i thought they would go over the pacific but no they just kept going through country borders or the Arctic. Never the pacific. It’s huge and you’re right ❤️
What i have to say about this video is AMAZINGGGGGGGG VIDEOOOO! i never seen like that bebore! Great video ! I hope to travel next year To Los Angeles , God bless you Renan Brazil!
That's so awesome. I flew from Portland to Tucson and got to see Zion and the Grand Canyon, and it's awesome to see the world and country from 30,000'. Also, my longest flight is nonstop from Chicago to Anchorage, and it's barely 1/3 of this flight length (6.25 hours).
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Nice footage.Unbelievable how you fly over all this untouched land then all of a sudden you are landing in a major city on the other side of the world.Great video.Thanks.
I watched the entire video. Felt like I was there with you and I even got that familiar excited feeling I get every time I land in Los Angeles. Always excited to see my family and eat all my favorite foods
You will notice too that the speed upon actual lift off is a bit faster than normal due to the desert hot air, and the thinness of the hotter air. More speed and thrust is needed to get the SOBs off the ground! :D
@Alex the normal cruising altitude for a boeing 777 is around 35,000 to 40,00 thousand, it looks like it was clear day. if you've ever flown internationally, normal flights go up to around 30,000+ feet
This is also based on physics , the higher you go the easier and faster it is to follow the curvature of the earth and reach your destination faster. Also less air currents to worry about causing turbulence, ive never been on a flight but the science behind it is fascinating to say the least
They are near north pole, where the stratosphere is 7 km high (23000 ft.) Which means that the plane also has to fly a bit lower then in other places, like equatorial areas for example, where the stratosphere goes as high as 20000 km (66000 ft.)
At what altitude did this plane fly over the artic and near by places??? Btw.. thank you so much for showing those things may be most of us have never seen in person...❤❤👍👍👍👍👍👍
Oh, wow!! Thank you for sharing these stunning views! I live in a small town in suburbs of Moscow and one of the paths of A380 LA/SF/NY to AbuDhabi/Dubai are just above my town. Mostly it's A380 aircrafts and in a good weather you can clearly see the difference between those huge birds and regular aircrafts and even see the red bellies (!!!) Emirates sign. One day I found this other rout they go, above the northern pole and was always wondering what it looks like! And now I found this video, moreover from one of the flights I'm tracking on FlightRadar app. :) This is so cool!! Thank you for staying strong and not falling asleep to record this! :)) Just wow! What a views! And 17h flight... I can't even imagine. Hope it went well!
Maninder Sharma read light of truth of swami dayanand sarswati ji the great hindu reformer of arya samaj I was an anthiest just like u but now I'm vedic peace🙏
i have never seen a video better then this Jonathan, hats off to you. would you mind sharing how many times did you faced turbulence in whole flight and when it was heavy i mean on which country
