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Thank-you for your inquiry. It has been forwarded to me for response. Without further details, I suspect that you are seeing condensation trails being produced by jet aircraft. This trails appear like long narrow strips of clouds. These condensation trails, also known as contrails, are visible trails left by aircraft operating at mid to high altitudes. They are created when water vapour from hot engine exhaust streams condenses into droplets and ice crystals in the cold air. The appearance and duration of contrails depend on many factors such as altitude, wind speed, sunlight, temperature and humidity. Contrails can remain visible for some time and can be dispersed by prevailing winds over large areas. Contrails have become more common and conspicuous in recent years, due to the increasing number of aircraft in use, including larger airliners with bigger, more powerful engines and higher operating altitudes. Despite their visibility, contrails do not pose a hazard to human health. Please be assured that safety is Transport Canada's highest priority and that the department makes every effort to ensure that all aspects of air operations, including emissions from aircraft, are safe and comply with applicable legislation. Aircraft engines and fuel must meet very stringent emissions standards that are constantly updated to ensure that aircraft manufacturers use the best available technology to reduce adverse environmental effects. The department is working diligently with the International Civil Aviation Organization to minimize the effects of all aircraft engine emissions. You may be interested to know that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has created the Aircraft Contrails Fact Sheet. This document is available on the FAA's website at the following address: www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/policy_guidance/envir_policy/media/contrails.pdf. I trust that this answers your concerns. Thank you for writing.
Originally posted by ATC_GOD
reply to post by tom goose
I cant really make sense of your last post. But I am assuming that you are an advocate and believe that the Government is spraying chemicals into the atmosphere (other than cloud seeding) and your proof is trails in the sky that are easily explained by the link I posted above.
I have been an Air Traffic Controller in eight Radar Approach controls for 3 different US states and 4 other countries over the past 14 years. And rest assured the only time I have controlled aircraft spraying anything into the air were cloud seeders in North Dakota working for big Farm insurance companies to turn hail in a thunderstorm into rain to reduce the damage to crops.
Chemtrails...just not real. What you are seeing are Contrails.
Originally posted by ATC_GOD
reply to post by tom goose
You are trying to make it a hot topic by claiming that they are CHEMTRAILS. They arent.
And as far as your statement about Air Traffic Control....you obviously have no idea what you are talking about. Why would I know anything about airplanes? Hmmmm..
...don't know what that guy is trying to tell me but it does not answer my question very well.
Can anyone else give me a layman response as to how this can be a natural occurrence
Originally posted by woogleuk
reply to post by tom goose
Because it's water ice particles created by the rapid cooling at around -40c, they stay around in the air just like clouds do.
Originally posted by ATC_GOD
reply to post by tom goose
Ok just re-read your OP to make sure I had not made a mistake...
You title the thread Chemtrails. Then in the OP you refer to each as a trail or the trail. You never call them Contrails.
Backpedal much?