On: AI to help planes avoid climate-warming 'sky graffiti'

[brookst]

From TFA:

> Rather than dramatically changing the route of a flight, the trial will mostly involve changing an aircraft's altitude by around 2,000ft.

[blondie9x → brookst]

What if there are more headwinds at that height which require increased fuel use?

[bfc1890 → blondie9x]

If you have any experience with the majority of airlines, you can be sure they are not planning to spend any significant amount of extra fuel on this problem. I am not a pilot, but I assume once you are at cruising altitude, small altitude changes are a rounding error

[brookst → blondie9x]

I mean what if there’s a mountain at that height? Will they just fly into it?