Forget my lines, look at your flight instruments.Chris M wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:52 am Well other than the fact that I never mentioned gravity in my previous response, a few screenshots of a spreadsheet aren't enough for me to agree or disagree with you. The lines you've drawn are quite useless to me as in scale at least they are grossly misrepresentative.
According to the radius of the Earth, your altimeter should be indicating a change of 150 feet over 15 miles of ground.
Then "someone" said, gravity is pulling the aircraft relative to the curve in level flight.
Then "someone" said, the climb profile would not be straight, but rather curved because of gravity.
Then I posted the flight data graphs that do not support either of the above explanations.
Now nobody wants to talk about the data or flight instruments, they're just telling stories and essentially insulting.
At this point, I'm truly confused about what I've been taught and shown about flight or the Earth. My mind is open as there
are many other aspects outside of our discussion that do not add up.