Comment by Animats
3 days ago
A sizable chunk of the world is currently considered hazardous for commercial aviation.[1] Ops.group maintains a quick reference map. It's bad.
3 days ago
A sizable chunk of the world is currently considered hazardous for commercial aviation.[1] Ops.group maintains a quick reference map. It's bad.
That map projection is the worst choice possible. It makes Russia appear much larger in relation to e. g. Africa than it really is.
> That map projection is the worst choice possible.
For navigation, the Mercator projection is useful, because a straight line on the chart is where you go with a constant bearing. Aerial navigation is waypoint/bearing/waypoint/bearing. So most aviation maps are Mercator.