EK215

Interesting flight route: Dubai to Los Angeles straight across the North Pole.

Note of caution: 

This post, like it's predecessor, does not talk about any shopping in Dubai nor about actors in Hollywood. Feminine people can skip this post.

The flight below, EK215 from Dubai to Los Angeles, flies straight up from Dubai over Kara sea, Russia (about 70E, 80N) and then over North Pole and then down the other side (about 120W, 80N) and then down Canada to LA. I tracked the flight from about 6PM IST to 7:30PM IST. The lat-long values during that period are given above. In both cases the latitude is about 80N. At the start of tracking, I saw it on this side of the pole in flightradar24. At the end of the period it was on the Canadian side (having crossed the North pole - while I was having my dinner). Amazing. But the more interesting part was that the flightradar24 route tracking isn't good beyond 80N. It's unable to rotate the earth and zoom into 80deg+ latitudes and locate/show polar flights. 

I was irritated. So I googled and figured that Google Earth could do just that and downloaded it. So in the picture below in the 3rd and 4th parts I marked the the starting point and the final destination (which goes over the 2nd lat-long) in Google Earth. Turned out to be a lovely way to track EK215. I wish flightradar24 could do this. The starting point shown in the 3rd picture is Dubai: you can see Saudi Arabia. The point 6395km from Dubai is where the flight was when at 6PM. The points marked off in Google Earth are approximate. In the 4th part of the picture, I have tracked the route on Google Earth till LA. You need to zoom in to the 3rd and 4th parts in the picture to understand better.

The 1st and 2nd parts show the flight route on flightradar24 at 7:30PM IST just after it had crossed the North pole. The 2nd picture is just a zoomed out picture of the first. Unfortunately I don't have the 6PM flightradar24 picture when the flight was near Kara sea on the Russian side.

(You can also click this link to see the same 4part picture.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EsJ02lM20ErH7qOnh56WpuQb-A8uG99O/view?usp=drivesdk)

For the first part of this article on interesting flight routes read https://vbala99.blogspot.com/2015/05/interesting-flight-routes.html

The flight stats for this flight are here: https://www.radarbox.com/data/flights/EK215/1549352072/log