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Simple answer: Zero. Because the planes move inside the atmosphere, which moves with the earth.

A more nuisance would be that earth rotating generate all sorts of things in the atmosphere, including winds and Coriolis effect on the winds, and you can account for that considering the winds. Btw a flight from Chile to France and back, will have a leg significantly shorter (up to 2 hs in a 13hs flight) and which leg it is, depends on the time of the year.




Interesting to know about the Coriolis effect.

I get that what really matters is the relative motion, but it still seems to me that there might be a gravitational/inertial effects at play, even if tiny.

Consider this thought experiment: Planes cannot really fly into space, but assume they can. At a certain altitude, it cannot be said the the plane is moving perfectly in step with the gravity of the earth. At infinite altitude, that certainly cannot be the case.

So that tells me there is some deviation due to the inertia of the plane, even at low altitudes. Like I said, the effect might be tiny, but would be interesting to learn more about it nonetheless.


I meant coriolis effect on the wind. Not sure if noticeable in a plane.




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