HUGE CONTRAIL!

[Night_Ryder]

Did anyone see this huge contrail that stretched across the sky directly above Perth?! If so can any tell me what made it?

[Kombi]

Did anyone see this huge contrail that stretched across the sky directly above Perth?! If so can any tell me what made it?

I saw it and wrote about it in above wessex thread, it was a large jet.

[spartacus]

I saw it and wrote about it in above wessex thread.

I'm about to fall over

PS, stop PMing me about my spelling, Wessex is with a capital W.

[Always RX]

The contrail was left by an Air Mauritius Airbus 340-300 Rego 3B-NAV flying from Melbourne to Mauritius.

[Jared]

I saw it and wrote about it in above wessex thread.

I'm about to fall over

PS, stop PMing me about my spelling, Wessex is with a capital W.

W or w??? Was it really worth exclaiming that

[spartacus]

I saw it and wrote about it in above wessex thread.

I'm about to fall over

PS, stop PMing me about my spelling, Wessex is with a capital W.

W or w??? Was it really worth exclaiming that

If i start the PM debate, which I'm not, then yes...

[Aztech]

Didnt it look AWSOME (the contrail)

I was standing on the Tarmac at Perth Airport, and it flew Directly above us...
Such an awsome site.....

[ClamSmacker]

Excuse my lack of knowledge on aircraft. How are these formed and are they controlled by the pilot?
Just wondering if they can let these go when there is heavy airtraffic around to make plane more visible??

[Tyranus]

ClamSmacker it is not something that can be controlled.

Contrails or vapor trails are condensation trails and artificial cirrus clouds made by the exhaust of aircraft engines or wingtip vortices which precipitate a stream of tiny ice crystals in moist, frigid upper air. Being composed of water, the visible white streams are not, in and of themselves, air pollution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrail