<div dir="auto">I am currently in Newark Airport and got the following instructions on my phone<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="0" dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(74,74,74);font-family:arial;font-size:14.6667px"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><span style="font-family:'calibri','arial';font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(59,103,160)">Davening direction in Newark</span></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td style="line-height:9pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">Following a <i>Rhumb Line</i> <b><a href="https://www.myzmanim.com/messagebox.aspx?messageid=direction" style="color:rgb(59,103,160);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://www.myzmanim.com/images/info16.png" style="border:none"></a></b></span><br><span style="font-size:7pt">Maintains a constant compass direction<br>HaRav Yisroel Belsky and others</span></td><td><span style="font-size:9pt">   Bearing <b>96°</b> ≈ <b>East</b></span></td></tr><tr><td style="line-height:9pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">Following a <i>great circle</i> <b><a href="https://www.myzmanim.com/messagebox.aspx?messageid=direction" style="color:rgb(59,103,160);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://www.myzmanim.com/images/info16.png" style="border:none"></a></b></span><br><span style="font-size:7pt">A straight path of shortest distance<br>HaRav Yechiel A. Zilber and others</span></td><td><span style="font-size:9pt">   Bearing <b>54°</b> ≈ <b>North-East</b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br></div><div dir="auto">Instinctively it seems silly to me davening north east towards Jerusalem even though that is the direction a plane would fly </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Didn't understand the logic of the rhumb line for davening </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Gut feeling is that south east is reasonable even that is based on a flat earth </div></div>