The earth is flat and stationary...get over it. We are taught as children that Newtons first law of motion ( an object moving in a straight line will remain so unless acted upon by an another force) is one of the root causes of the Coriolis effect in regards to objects that are detached from the earth and moving freely over the surface. The teachers guide to teaching the Coriolis effect states that the earth rotates UNDER any object that is ''detached'' from the surface. This includes airplanes, boats, and, when asked by all the boys in my grade 5 class(many decades ago), our teacher informed us that the earth did indeed rotate under a baseball. Coriolis is taught to be strictly an observational phenomenon. This is demonstrated by 2 guys in lab coats spinning on a laboratory built merry-go-round. One scientist throws the ball in a straight line and, from his perspective, the ball appears to curve to the left as they spin to the right. Viewed from above, the ball travels in a straight line. We are taught early in highschool geography class that the earth rotating UNDER the atmosphere is also one of the root causes for wind directions in the two hemispheres. The ''drag'' that occurs where the air meets the dirt, on a micro level causes this effect over a macro distance. This is theorized to be the root of wind directions as seen in hurricanes, for example. Both of these instances would suggest a stationary atmosphere with the earth rotating UNDER it. Newtons first law of motion is applied as a prerequisite to the Coriolis effect in both situations. It is my contention that, if what we were taught, when we were too young to know how the world works and too busy to really care, is in fact true, then by that logic, a helicopter should only have to hover and wait for its destination to rotate to it from the west. The same could be said about a hot air balloon. I posted this obvious conundrum in the form of a Youtube video and the common argument is that the atmosphere is somehow ''tattooed'' to the earth and rotates with it. If that is true, then what would be the purpose of teaching the Coriolis effect at all? Am I wrong to say that Coriolis would be non existent in such a reality? Just like it appears to be in our current reality? This is no coincidence, by the way, in my opinion, and for obvious reasons. Furthermore, if we apply Newtons first law of motion, as taught with regards to the Coriolis, directly to the assumption that the atmosphere rotates with the earth at 1037 miles/hour at the equator, wouldn't the simple act of jumping in a forward direction be categorized as suicide and wouldn't aviation be an absolute impossibility? It seems to me that after posting my latest video on FB and youtube, all I am reading in the chat threads is excuse aft ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAa1hM7R0cg