does a pilot have to compinsate for the earths rotation when landing a plane?
609452
No, because you are moving with the Earth while you're in it's atmosphere.
872091
Autorotation works just like a parachute.  Its standard part of helicopter pilot training.  My very first time up, the instructor took me up about 1000 feet above the airport and the said "Now lets disengage the engine."  We started a rapid but controlled decent and safely landed in a grassy area at the airport.  No damage to either us or the helicopter.
285215
If you are in an airplane they are circular.  We usually can't see the bottom because there is no rain to reflect the colors in the earth.
270714
No there is not..an upside down from what perspective? you would need a frame of reference to start from. If you were in a shuttle then there would be an upside down in the shuttle or course, but not out in space as there is no "down" or "up"
133822
"On the average, in the northern hemisphere, travel time flying east is less than travel time flying west as in the northern hemisphere the prevailing winds are to the east.\nThe rotation of the earth has no measurable influence on duration of flight. The atmosphere rotates with the Earth, and the aircraft moves with the air.  If we were to ignore the winds, no matter which direction you flew, the speed of the aircraft relative to the Earth would be the same. Airlines do try and make use of the jet streams wherever possible."
343175
the surface of earth moves at a very high speed. (~ 1674 km/h)\n\n(2 * pi * 6400 km)/ 24 hours\n\nBut the atmosphere surrounding the earth also moves with same speed. So it keeps us dragging the person who jumps and make sure he falls "vertically" at the same place.\n\nIf there is no atmosphere around a planet and if you jump there from helicopter, you can feel the difference.\nOn this planet, if you jump from ground, you will move along with planet because of Newton's first law. (similar to throwing a ball up in a travelling car. the ball will travel along with car)
444020
Good question! I think no because everything moves within the atmosphere. Such as 8 hour long airplanes. If they travel the opposite direction of the earth's rotation, it wouldn't just stay still over the same exact spot over the ocean if it traveled 1000mph. good question, but that's what i predict using prior knowledge. Plus, i think it's gravitational force that makes every object move at the same time along with the earth itself. It may have to do with Earth's magnetic field, i don't know.
423647
landing and taking off of airplanes
272784
YESSSSSSSSSSSS  anybody can fly u just have to find the right spot. a good place to star many scientific agree is titan ( the second biggest moon in the universe which has it own atmosphere). titan atmosphere is alot more dense that the earth atmosphere ,and would make kind of easy to make ur own wings and star the fly. the second option is a discipline which many people who jump airplanes do whit especial clothes  which they put on then and can keep then flying in the air alot longer than it would be usual( u also can do this whitout any airplane).
401228
An airplane flying in reverse of the earth's rotation will travel the same distance faster than one flying in the same direction as rotation.
197209
No matter what course an aircraft takes, it is flying in the atmosphere, which rotates with the earth. It is possible to find a jetstream at high altitude, and it will speed your flight if it's in the direction you're traveling. Jetstreams generally flow eastward (same direction as earth's rotation) and can hit speeds of 275 mph (see ref.). Since this is against the Europe-to-America direction, it's unlikely that a jetstream would help such a flight.\nEDIT: The original ref. (now marked [1]) is currently unavailable, but I'm leaving it here because it had an excellent illustration of equatorial-polar convection cells. Ref. 2 has a good graphic of jet stream formation.
987225
if @ a constant speed, you have the same speed as the plane\nif you jump though, you ain't attached to the floor anymore to maintain the same speed, thus \ni say you land in same spot\nthere's no air resistance or friction if you jump in the air inside the airplane\nu should have the same speed continuously\n"an object in motion, will remain in motion unless acted upon by an outside force"
174378
It does, and at the same time, it doesnt, it depends on the situation.\n\nIf you were to take a rocket out so far away from any gravitaitonal fields that they were insignificant and remove any of type of friction/forces acting on the space craft, then it wouldnt need a rocket to continue moving due to Newtons 1st law of motion (inertia).\n\nHowever, in any real, practical, situation, a space craft does need a rocket to keep moving, eventually.\nTake this example.  If you had a space craft in space at the edge of the Earth's atmosphere so that air resistance was negliglible and fire the rockets off initially to start moving but then shut them down.....eventually, then rocket would come to a stop.  This would happen because of Earth's gravitational pull on the rocket, just because something is in space doesnt mean there is no gravity. Gravity acts as the unbalanced force to slow/stop/reverse the space craft, if the rockets arent fired to counter act this, the craft will eventually fall back to Earth.\nThere is a special case to this example, however.  If the space craft were to originally lauch at the escape velocity for Earth, it would never fall back down as that is defined as the minimum velocity needed to escape the Earth's gravitaitonal pull forever, bu this still isnt to say that the craft wont slow down as Earth continues to exert a force on it.\n\nIn space, as with everywhere else in the universe, an object will only maintain a constant velocity if the net force acting on the object is zero.  If there is any force acting on the object (be it due to gravity, friction, whatever), there will be some acceleration which will cause a change in velocity with respect to time.
1143426
Once a craft gets to space, it is not affected by earth's spin. If a shuttle is meeting up with another craft (i.e. space-station) the orbits must be in-sync when the shuttle gets to space. There are only certain times when the orbits will be correct. NASA refers to the time when the shuttle needs to launch as a window.
401627
As a pilot and a Geologist, I find this highly unlikely.  \n\nThe first consideration is the media through which the wave are transferred.  Consider this simple experiment.  If you wave your hand through the air, the wind generated wouldn't be felt by someone on the other side of the room.  Air is a terrible transmitter of vibrations.  It tends to dampen most vibration.  Now consider that the plane was several miles in the air, it seems highly unlikely that the plane would have felt the effects of the quake.\n\nSecondly, Geologically speaking, earthquake waves tend to radiate out from an epicenter and are likely never felt at the point exactly opposite the epicenter on the earth's surface.  The Iron-Nickel core dampens the shock waves of the quake to the point where waves simply never appear on the opposite side of the earth.\n\nThird, there are no alarm signals in a plane to indicate that the earth is shifting.  \n\nFourth, the plane was landing to make a refueling stop, and so was low on fuel already.  Most sources point to a running out of fuel or fuel system malfunction as teh likely cause of the accident.  \n\nFifth, the article to which you refer first appeared in the Russian equivalent of the National Enquirer or Weekly World News (Grocery Store Scandal Magazines).\n\nThus, when flying there is little to fear from the quaking earth below you.  In fact, you're probably safer where you are.
572689
No easily measurable effect. There is a small Coriolis effect when flying north or south, but not when flying east or west. The air and Earth are all rotating as a unit, so except for wind, it is no different than driving on the ground. Wind speed and direction is controlled more by heating from the Sun than anything else, and it can blow in any direction. True, prevailing winds to tend to make for quicker travel in one direction, but that is not what you are talking about I think.
927237
It appears that the range is classified, but it can refuel in air anyway, so no, it doesn't need to land to go around the world.  It could, theoretically circumvent the world several times, as long as they had supplies and enough pilots to rotate shifts.