Question

An airplane starts from Ecuador to land in Kenya. How will it be impacted by the Coriolis Effect?

Answer 1

not much. It's not a ballistic object.

Answer 2

Its radius from the spin axis of the earth will change very little because it is not moving far off the equator so it will feel little effect.

Answer 3

If you fly north from the equator for example you are already moving with the eastward speed of the earth at the equator and will end up east of your target to the north because your target is not moving east so fast. That is why hurricanes spin counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere. a particle headed north ends up east and a particle headed south ends up west of the low pressure center.