Three U-Shaped Contrails in Serbia

Mick West said: ↑
Another similar one posted on Twitter - location unknown.


It might be

Serbia, December 29, 2011
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Yes, this link says the picture was taken in Zrenjanin, Serbia at 9:30-10:00 in the morning of December 29, 2011. Google StreetView did not get there, so I could not verify the place. There are no big airports nearby, however. Also, there are more pictures that caught the plane in the act. See, for example, this screenshot:
Screen shot 2014-06-09 at 10.13.11.png

It shows the plane circling anticlockwise (banking left), whereas the planes on hold usually circle clockwise (banking right). Apologies to the pilots here if I mixed up the terminology. Also, please correct me, if I'm wrong in assuming that the circling directions are the same at all civilian airports.
 
It shows the plane circling anticlockwise (banking left), whereas the planes on hold usually circle clockwise (banking right). Apologies to the pilots here if I mixed up the terminology. Also, please correct me, if I'm wrong in assuming that the circling directions are the same at all civilian airports.

Doesn't that depend on which hemisphere you're in?
 
Another similar one posted on Twitter - location unknown.
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I have located the building with the conic spire topped with a cock figure in Zrenjanin, Serbia. It is a well-known in the past but derelict at the present house.

The photo on Twitter was taken from the opposite side of the road crossing in the WNW direction. There is an international airport in this direction north of Novi Sad, but it is still under construction and did not operate at the time of photo.
 
Yes, this link says the picture was taken in Zrenjanin, Serbia at 9:30-10:00 in the morning of December 29, 2011. Google StreetView did not get there, so I could not verify the place. There are no big airports nearby, however. Also, there are more pictures that caught the plane in the act. See, for example, this screenshot:
Screen shot 2014-06-09 at 10.13.11.png

It shows the plane circling anticlockwise (banking left), whereas the planes on hold usually circle clockwise (banking right). Apologies to the pilots here if I mixed up the terminology. Also, please correct me, if I'm wrong in assuming that the circling directions are the same at all civilian airports.

If you look at the example I provided, as Weedie says, they go either way.
 
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