North Pole Fly-Over Question

Can someone tell me more about the magnetic north?!

VS LHR-NRT is usually trans-Siberia both ways.

I’d be interested to know what Cathay are planning with regards to radiation levels and the polar routing. Company issued lead lined underpants? 🙂

Cathay Pacific’s HKG-JFK will be a Polar route, due to start on the 1st June.

Originally posted by KabirT
Doesent VS do LHR-Tokyo over the polor route?

I do not think that it is polar. The 346 is used on this route and its routing puts it over southern Sweden, south-western parts of Russia, Kazakstan, Mongolia, North-eastern parts of China and then onto Japan. This by no means an exact routing but it gives a good idea of how the aircraft reaches its destination.

Well, if VS’s LHR-NRT route is polar, wouldn’t JAL’s, ANA’s, and BA’s also be?

Doesent VS do LHR-Tokyo over the polor route?

Originally posted by Hand87_5
I guess that CO operates a flight with a 777 between Newark and Beinjin.

Just thought i point out is Beijing lol hahaha

anyways yea the new SIN-JFK route operated by SQ will be a polar route i read an article on their website saying it is.

Originally posted by ACA345
I belive that SQ’s soon to be non-stop SIN-New York will be a polar routing. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Indeed it is. 18 hours each way.

Originally posted by ACA345
Is CX’s new non-stop HKG-JFK with the 346 a polar routing? The flights begin this year.

I would think so. ORD-HKG routings are polar, as is CO’s EWR-HKG, I believe.

Is the magnetic nortphole dangerous? how do navigation instruments react on this?

Anomalies hint at magnetic pole flip

19:00 10 April 02

Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition

The Earth’s magnetic poles might be starting to flip say researchers who have seen strange anomalies in our planet’s magnetic field.
The magnetic field is created by the flow of molten iron inside the Earth’s core. These circulation patterns are affected by the planet’s rotation, so the field normally aligns with the Earth’s axis – forming the north and south poles.

But the way minerals are aligned in ancient rock shows that the planet’s magnetic dipole occasionally disappears altogether, leaving a much more complicated field with many poles all over the planet. When the dipole comes back into force, the north and south poles can swap places.

The last reversal happened about 780,000 years ago, over a period of several thousand years. Now Gauthier Hulot from the Institute of Earth Sciences in Paris and his colleagues think they have spotted early signs of another reversal.

I belive that SQ’s soon to be non-stop SIN-New York will be a polar routing. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Is CX’s new non-stop HKG-JFK with the 346 a polar routing? The flights begin this year.

Originally posted by Jeanske_SN
Are we talking about the magnetic north or the actual north? Flying over the magnetic north would twist all HSI’s, and doesn’t that give navigation problems…

I was referring to the actual North Pole (where Santa Claus lives….), the one that tourists visit from time to time…….. 🙂

Stay away from that Magnetic Pole !

Are we talking about the magnetic north or the actual north? Flying over the magnetic north would twist all HSI’s, and doesn’t that give navigation problems…

SAS hasn’t flown to LAX in years. You might be thinking of Seattle, Steve.

I think Cathay fly it JFK to HKG, and i’m sure i read somewhere that SAS fly Copenhagen to LAX using the Polar Route

I guess that CO operates a flight with a 777 between Newark and Beinjin.