Are aircraft flight times affected by the rotation of the earth?
I went through some resources that says earth rotation does not affect flight times. Yes, the rationale given seems to be true but with application of different scientific calculations, I can see it has something to do though not in significant amount or through some indirect effects. It is said that the flight times are affected by the winds. The earth’s rotation results to circulation of the wind which is either east or west bound. The head and the tail winds have impact on flight time differences. These winds of course are largely related to earth rotation, thus how could it be that flight times are not affected by earth rotation while the winds got effect on it, and in fact such wind is being affected by earth rotation. It simply shows the earth rotation affects the wind, and the wind affects the time flight thus gives a hint that earth rotation has indirect impact to the aircraft speed thus affecting the flight times. The counterforce of the wind affects the speed of an aircraft t
