Flight route maps

[newtoquizzes]

I like looking out of the window on a flight and trying to work out where we are (subject to visibility), spotting geographical features, prominent landmarks and so on! Does anyone know of a website that shows fairly detailed routes? Ideally, you'd put in a departure airport and a destination one and ... bingo!

Many thanks for any shared knowledge.

[grasscarp]

This is difficult because the route differs from day to day. There can be a number of routes that can get you from A to B and according to the favourable winds, and any applicable restrictions on the route, the computer flight plan will be issued on one of these.

[newtoquizzes]

Thanks for this. Is there an "all things being equal", most likely route between, say, Gatwick and Lanzarote?

[BeatySwalls]

www.alltheinformationyouneedtobeaterrorist.com

[grasscarp]

This website is pretty good as it shows you the straight line, and the route you are going to get could be something like this. If you look out of the window and try to match what you are seeing with this you may be lucky.
http://www.theairdb.com/connection/ACE-LGW.htm l

[newtoquizzes]

Thanks again. Yes, pretty helpful.

[jno]

straight lines are just for maps - in flying over the earth you are following curved lines, which is why you may go to the USA via Greenland or Japan via the North Pole. You'll often hear captains say they're changing route because of turbulence or favourable winds or whatever, so you can never really be sure where you're going to go. Looking at any atlas will give you an outline idea, lookng at a globe is better. Best of all is if the plane has inflight maps on its communications system that you can sit and watch.

[alavahalf]

Gatwick to Lanzarote.....hoping for landmarks...wishful thinking I should say..
You will fly at about 40,000 ft...for most of the flight ...and most of it is over the sea apart from a stretch over Portugal.
Take your earphones and watch the inflight movie..!

[newtoquizzes]

On the contrary, over the years I have taken some very good photos from my window of geographical features (especially coastlines), but, to come back to my main point, would love to be able later to find those spots on a map.

P.S. The reference to Gatwick to Lanzarote was only ever intended as a "for instance".