Well I was recently in a debate with a youtuber over the flat earth subject, and one of the proofs he mentioned was QF27 - or QFA27 - Santiago,Chile, to Sydney, Australia (and vice versa) taking too short a time (12hours or so) for the FE map to be correct.
Now I've heard this before and I've heard different arguments. From flat earther's - that the map most commonly used may not be 100% perfect - but far better than the maps we have for the globe. That seems a little weak, to me. I've heard that there are people who have taken the flight who find their compasses pointing the wrong direction at the tail end of it. And then excuses for that.
Not sure what to think of any of this. So I went to FlightRadar and had a look:
(Sydney to Santiago)
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/qf27/#d97c7ab
Now, what's interesting to me, first off, is the flight path itself. Why waste soooo much fuel heading SE from Australia then NE to make a huge "U" ? It seems to me the shortest route saving the most time and the most fuel is simply due East from Sydney. Why the all the waste? Can't argue it's to "pick up more people" - as there are not stops on the route shown.
The second thing I found interesting about this flight is that outside of a little bit out of Sydney, and approaching Auckland - there is 0 flight radar for it - you can watch previous flights and the plane skips over the greatest length of the flight - the dotted line.
This second thing brings to mind something else. Someone's going to object and say that radar can't travel over that distance - to which I have to ask - why is it curving over such a great distance to begin with? Now even if it went in a straight line - due East, and if radar couldn't track it then due to distance...
Then why not one of the thousands of supposed satellites that are hovering above the earth.
The whole flight smells fishy to me.