Three U-Shaped Contrails in Serbia
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M Bornong
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Trailspotter
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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:
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.
cloudspotter
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Doesn't that depend on which hemisphere you're in?
WeedWhacker
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No, Right-Hand turns are "standard" for holding patterns. However, some instances will have the patterns "published" and be "non-standard" with a Left-Hand racetrack.
cloudspotter
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Trailspotter
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Another similar one posted on Twitter - location unknown.
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.
TWCobra
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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:
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.
Trailspotter
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Thanks. I should have remembered that one of the four holding stacks of Heathrow Airport is anticlockwise. I've looked into this before.
It is the military aircraft tend to fly anticlockwise orbits (AWACS circles and air-to-air refuelling racetracks), at least in the UK and about.
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