Carryfast:
bald bloke:
Carryfast:
It’s always surprising how much distance travelled in latitude can often shorten the distance travelled in longitude the further places are from the poles in latitude.It’s a bit like the shortest distance from Los Angeles to London being via Northern Canada and Greenland.
Ive seen some ■■■■ in my time but youve just broke the bra.
euromat:
kindle530:
Mat, as per our conversation earlier… !!
0how dare he!!
how very dare he!!
I dont want to feel left out…
Carryfast:
:shock:
As for running to Basel going that way instead of Luxembourg-Strasbourg-Kehl Bridge and A5 and Basel to Moscow via Latviainstead of Basel-Karlsruhe-Munich-Vienna-Bratislava-Lviv-Kiev the jury is still out although to be fair I’ve never driven further East than Ljubljana and Dubrovnik and that’s only with a car.
Oh with a car 
, well I’ll make sure to ask your advice when I go to Moscow I mean Tesco, easily confused
Carryfast:
It’s always surprising how much distance travelled in latitude can often shorten the distance travelled in longitude the further places are from the poles in latitude.It’s a bit like the shortest distance from Los Angeles to London being via Northern Canada and Greenland.
Have you informed Richard Branson’ just to make sure he isnt wasting fuel
euromat:
not only would that route involve 2 extra borders its also longer km wise
Hang on is this the voice off experience, yes 
. I’ll be sure to sort out his advice if I go to Tesco, I mean Moscow, I keep getting them confused , easily done
milodon:
I’m pretty sure that DAF doesn’t have wings on it,
Do you not think , as the man himself states during his trip “the mighty 410”
B1 GGK:
Ive seen some ■■■■ in my time but youve just broke the bra.
Now now sir, you’re spending to much time on the net
switchlogic:
Good old Carryfast, now ‘advising’ one of the forums most experienced international, indeed transcontinental, drivers on routes! Amazeballs.
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Just think of it as a public service, if he wasnt on here he’d be in an RDC waitng room
Oh with a car
They are in the middle of building a Tesco in Moscow.
Just in case you fancied a visit!
pidpod:
Oh with a car
They are in the middle of building a Tesco in Moscow.
Just in case you fancied a visit!
behave, I can get lost on the A14
bald bloke:
Carryfast:
It’s always surprising how much distance travelled in latitude can often shorten the distance travelled in longitude the further places are from the poles in latitude.It’s a bit like the shortest distance from Los Angeles to London being via Northern Canada and Greenland.
Correct every plane from the UK flies that way
Dafman:
bald bloke:
Carryfast:
It’s always surprising how much distance travelled in latitude can often shorten the distance travelled in longitude the further places are from the poles in latitude.It’s a bit like the shortest distance from Los Angeles to London being via Northern Canada and Greenland.
Correct every plane from the UK flies that way
I’m no expert on shortest transatlantic routes but I always thought that the reason aircraft flew that route was to spend as much time over land as possible should they fall from the sky.
Look at a globe the further north or south the shorter the distance round it.
Heathrow to LA up and over Iceland, Greenland, Baffin island, Hudson Bay then down.
Carryfast wrote:It’s always surprising how much distance travelled in latitude can often shorten the distance travelled in longitude the further places are from the poles in latitude.It’s a bit like the shortest distance from Los Angeles to London being via Northern Canada and Greenland.
OK serious anorak time just to put this away.
Through any two points on a sphere which are not directly opposite each other, there is a unique great circle. The two points separate the great circle into two arcs. The length of the shorter arc is the great-circle distance between the points.
the maoster:
Dafman:
bald bloke:
Carryfast:
It’s always surprising how much distance travelled in latitude can often shorten the distance travelled in longitude the further places are from the poles in latitude.It’s a bit like the shortest distance from Los Angeles to London being via Northern Canada and Greenland.
Correct every plane from the UK flies that way
I’m no expert on shortest transatlantic routes but I always thought that the reason aircraft flew that route was to spend as much time over land as possible should they fall from the sky.
I thought they flew that way to get into the jet stream. Nice strong tail wind = faster journey time and better mpg as it were.
P.S. Brilliant diary Mat.
pidpod:
Carryfast wrote:It’s always surprising how much distance travelled in latitude can often shorten the distance travelled in longitude the further places are from the poles in latitude.It’s a bit like the shortest distance from Los Angeles to London being via Northern Canada and Greenland.
OK serious anorak time just to put this away.
Through any two points on a sphere which are not directly opposite each other, there is a unique great circle. The two points separate the great circle into two arcs. The length of the shorter arc is the great-circle distance between the points.
The easiest way to look at it is that the distance in longitude around the earth gets shorter the nearer to the poles.That can then be used when making long distance journeys in longitude to shorten the distance by plotting a curve that doesn’t exceed a distance travelled in latitude than that saved in longitude.Which is why the run between Heathrow and LA for example doesn’t go via the poles but it does go a long way North from LA.It’s also why both my idea of a possible route for the run in question was further in distance than the one used in the topic and it’s also why even that route wouldn’t have been the shortest possible.
Cracking diary mate, I’m on my 6th nite in hospital wiv a broken tibia, blood clots on my lungs n a chest infection n that rite perked me up n kept me entertained… Thank you! Lol.
cracking pixs and report there mat whos tour was it any of the big artists or one of the smallest ones,wish i could do ur job but my shoulder and arthritis would be no good in ur job can not do much heavy lifting.so id be useless at unloading or loading the truck at each venue
Great diary Mat, I started watching and couldn’t stop. You’ve got to have one of the best jobs going, and I’m jealous lol.
Keep up the diaries mate
jarvo:
Cracking diary mate, I’m on my 6th nite in hospital wiv a broken tibia, blood clots on my lungs n a chest infection n that rite perked me up n kept me entertained… Thank you! Lol.
Crikey you’ve been in the wars! Get well soon.
manitou:
jarvo:
Cracking diary mate, I’m on my 6th nite in hospital wiv a broken tibia, blood clots on my lungs n a chest infection n that rite perked me up n kept me entertained… Thank you! Lol.Crikey you’ve been in the wars! Get well soon.
too right, get well soon (and i glad to keep you entertained, theres a couple more diaries on my youtube page)
euromat:
manitou:
jarvo:
Cracking diary mate, I’m on my 6th nite in hospital wiv a broken tibia, blood clots on my lungs n a chest infection n that rite perked me up n kept me entertained… Thank you! Lol.Crikey you’ve been in the wars! Get well soon.
too right, get well soon (and i glad to keep you entertained, theres a couple more diaries on my youtube page)
I enjoyed them a lot and Jarvo get well soon pal