Invisible Highways in the Sky ✈️ How Air Traffic Control Works🚦

Invisible Highways in the Sky ✈️ How Air Traffic Control Works 🛫you would neve belive it

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00:00Why do all the planes flying over the Atlantic choose this specific narrow path?

00:04Look, it's a really crazy bunch of planes,

00:07moving along an invisible highway in perfect order on parallel paths.

00:11But why is that?

00:12Well, firstly, this is the shortest way between the USA and Europe,

00:16and secondly, there's an actual highway in the sky called the Jetstream.

00:20Jetstream is a powerful air current that moves from west to east.

00:24It saves fuel and makes flights shorter and less turbulent.

00:27That's why flights from the US to Europe are usually faster than in the opposite direction.

00:32But how do they avoid collisions, especially since radars don't work over the Atlantic?

00:37You see, it's all handled by the North Atlantic tracks.

00:40Since jet streams are constantly shifting, experts analyze a lot of data every day

00:44and literally create tracks for the planes.

00:47As planes approach these tracks, pilots request permission to enter them.

00:51Air traffic controllers, based on all the requests,

00:54optimally schedule the planes by setting speed, altitude and distance,

00:58which makes flying so safe.