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Notice was put out NOV

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/us_restrictions...

A sizable chunk of the world is currently considered hazardous for commercial aviation.[1] Ops.group maintains a quick reference map. It's bad.

[1] https://safeairspace.net/

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.

Yeah that's not for TNCF (curacao) but venezuela (SVZM) airspace. So that's approximately zero excuse.

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