View Full Version : Help to identify plane?
Gerard M
28th March 2009, 06:08 PM
Hi all, might be a fruitless questions here, but about 10minutes ago, a relatively high up plane flew over my house and banked to turn to the west and then headed south-west. I'm in the Hills district (Sydney's north west) and dont normally get highflyers coming from the north and heading south, its contrail is still mostly there now if anyones interested and PP didnt have anything there?
Does anyone know what it would have been?
Cheers
Gerard
Joseph D
28th March 2009, 06:20 PM
I guess you can check out the WebTrak program to help you identify the aircraft.
Gerard M
28th March 2009, 06:25 PM
I guess you can check out the WebTrak program to help you identify the aircraft.
I didn't think that WebTrak monitored aircraft that were that high since they don't exactly make that much noise when there high up?
Joseph D
28th March 2009, 06:44 PM
You are right. There is nothing showing.
Andrew McLaughlin
28th March 2009, 07:56 PM
Virgin 737 - I saw it from the airport bank over the inner west and then head southwest - left a beautiful orange contrail in the sunset.
Stu M
28th March 2009, 07:57 PM
Its a common track I see quite a bit over my place in Petersham, but today they had quite a striking trail behind them. There were 2 about an hour apart both were Virgin Blue 737s.
Gerard M
28th March 2009, 08:06 PM
Virgin 737 - I saw it from the airport bank over the inner west and then head southwest - left a beautiful orange contrail in the sunset.
Its a common track I see quite a bit over my place in Petersham, but today they had quite a striking trail behind them. There were 2 about an hour apart both were Virgin Blue 737s.
That would be it! Thanks for that. I saw the first one as well but didn't see which direction it was going so didn't think anything of it! The last one would have made for a good photo with the contrail if anyone managed to get a snap of it :cool:
Gerard M
29th March 2009, 06:55 PM
Could someone who fill me in as to what sort of atmospheric conditions make for good contrails because tonight there were plenty whilst i was driving though the mountains out to Bathurst. At one stage they nearly had a naughts and crosses board going and then later on there was a nice t through the middle of the sun? Normally i don't see that many.
Mick B
29th March 2009, 07:11 PM
Could someone who fill me in as to what sort of atmospheric conditions make for good contrails because tonight there were plenty whilst i was driving though the mountains out to Bathurst. At one stage they nearly had a naughts and crosses board going and then later on there was a nice t through the middle of the sun? Normally i don't see that many.
Some colder than usual high altitude temperatures (for Sydney anyway) and relatively light winds up there made for a pretty nice combination...noticed quite a few myself over Sydney yesterday and today.
Grahame Hutchison
29th March 2009, 07:27 PM
The contrail over Sydney around 5pm today was impressive, the aircraft heading south then turning to the right.
James Smith
29th March 2009, 07:56 PM
One of the flights (second one?) was possibly DJ 708 from Brisbane to Hobart which leaves BRI at 15:40 on Saturday. That would place it over SYD at around 17:45 - 18:00 if it was on schedule. I saw this from Cherrybrook and it turned right over SYD to track towards Wollongong or points further south.
I'm not sure about the other one.
QF 94 also put on a good show this morning as did another south flying domestic aircraft.
Mick B
30th March 2009, 09:33 PM
Here's a cool photo of one of the contrail's on Saturday from V Festival...complete with random d*ckhead in the foreground!!!
http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs019.snc1/2641_77674532656_517702656_2059554_2041934_n.jpg
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