Holding Pattern Contrail near Nowra, Australia.

[Mick West]

This particularly fine example comes from this Russian page:

http://kruzzik.livejournal.com/359953.html

 

[M Bornong]

I found the image here, http://theduckhilton.blogspot.com/2013/05/holding-patterns-and-road-paddock-crew.html, labeled as May 28, 2013,

Yesterday there was fog at Sydney airport, so lots of people were in a holding pattern... before being diverted to Canberra and other airports :(

 

[Mick West]

Cool, so that puts the view location at Nowra, south of Sydney.

Bingo:
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/labs/wor...p=146.278687,-37.443237,153.648315,-32.894897

These would be from a bit later. EXIF puts the photo time at 8:17AM.

 

[Mick West]

Interesting that Rosie knew exactly what she was looking at. However other people living nearby look up, see exactly the same thing, but interpret it very differently:

Published on Aug 27, 2012

Early morning 28th August , Nowra Australia , more contrails / chemtrails !
aussiebattler style

Satellites did not catch anything clearly, but shows the right kind of weather.
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/labs/wor...ap=148.207326,-36.419246,151.89214,-34.145076

 

[TWCobra]

TARAL and CULIN are the two waypoints most used by ATC to Hold aircraft going into Sydney when arriving from the west. That looks like TARAL to me.

 

[Ross Marsden]

I wonder if the pilots thought, after the first circuit, "Oh, noes! This will cause some trouble [in certain sectors of the community]!"

 

[WeedWhacker]

TARAL and CULIN are the two waypoints most used by ATC to Hold aircraft going into Sydney when arriving from the west. That looks like TARAL to me.

Oh, dear.

I posted on a YT video with a link to the World Hi Chart (@ SkyVector) and just pointed out the co-located Nowra VOR/NDB. (Thought it was easier than trying to explain an intersection to the bloke!).

 

[Mick West]

Serbian contrails split off to:
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/three-u-shaped-contrails-in-serbia.3794/