Flight path over Perth WA

[psmint]

Around 5.15-5.30pm today June 7 two aircraft flew high over South Perth heading SW. I saw a similar event about a week ago. This is unusual to see this. Is this a new flight path for aircraft heading to Eastern Australia or ?

[leinad]

I believe the Approach constantly changes to the airport depending on wind direction, other factors.

[Blue Skies]

I was wondering about that today, too. That was a massive contrail today, I had a good look at it while driving around 5.20pm and saw the other one a week or so ago. Its unusual to see them in Perth, but not unknown.

[seanliddelow]

I saw the contrail too. The planes are obviously not taking off from perth airport as my house is almost next to the airport and i still see them up high in the sky. My dads a airline engineer for qantas at perth air port so i will ask him more about it. If they are not stopping at the airport they must have a LOT of fuel.

[Blue Skies]

I found out during the week that there has been a change in flight paths for some direct flights from South Africa/Mauritius region to Melbourne. So we should expect to see a few more contrails over Perth in the future, they'll no longer be a rarity for us.

[TJD]

my dads a pilot and he reckons there is no change in flight plans:shrug:
i saw them to they looked like they were about 50000 feet high and that they were militery plains the looked like c-17s or c-5s and looked like they were traveling very fast they were also following the jet stream

[leinad]

Last week on the way home I saw a strange streak in the sky towards the NW. Definitely appeared to be a contrail. It looked as though it was dipping to the NW. I wish I had my camera on hand :(

This guy in Perth got some pics earlier in the month on the dates reported.
http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=786692

[seanliddelow]

I saw the planes up in the hills with my 127mm telescope it looks like a commercial plane but i dont think it is.:)

[Peter Ward]

Many other carriers use a "minimum fuel" flight plan (saves money) and at this time of year it is not unusual to get strong jetstreams (which always flow west to east) much further north than in the summer.

While I haven't operated from JNB from a while, (and haven't seen the very latest Meteorological data for that part of the globe) it would not be unusual at all for the flight planners to route a flight from Johannesburg to Melbourne or Sydney via Perth (or a waypoint close to it).

Nothing sinister, military or any real change, just the business of using the winds to an advantage as usual ;)

[seanliddelow]

Thanks:thumbsup:
I also saw a black plane close to my house which was of a very unusaul shape. My dad works in qantas and he said that nasa was testing in the outback. I thought i saw a nasa logo on the tail as it was very close to our house. The time was approximatly4:00. I saw the object in Helena Valley, Perth during 2008.

PLEASE REPLY!

[Peter Ward]

You saw a black plane....at 0400....above Helena Valley????

[seanliddelow]

Would you have any clue waht it would be?:help:

[Peter Ward]

Any aircraft would look "black" at 0400 no matter what time of the year as.. well....it's still dark outside!

[MrB]

Well seeing as though Sean never put a zero in front of his four, as you did, I think it would be quite reasonable to assume he means 4pm.

[seanliddelow]

Yeah i mean 4 PM

[Peter Ward]

It has been many moons since the NOAA had any aircraft in Oz, (even more for NASA) so I'd suspect military traffic out of Pearce.

Joint exercises are conducted fairly regularly in the North....could have been a US interloper.

BTW next time try, 16.00 or 4.00 pm to save any ambiguity :)

[TJD]

we have had c-17s and c-130s fly over our house and there usaly black ;)and realy loud!!!!!!!!:P

[TrevorW]

Some Black Ops thing

[seanliddelow]

My dad did see NASA over here year or two ago. They were at Perth airport.

[Jacob]

G'day Guys,
In response to seanliddelow. Me and a mate were hiking the Bibbulmun just past Helena in 2008, We also saw strange planes in the sky...Only on a single night, they did appear black and in our opinion were strangely shaped like a triangle...Black Ops...

[seanliddelow]

That seems like a good explanation because i saw it around or on the same date you did.:)

[leinad]

Today, Sun July 5th, 1pm Perth, a White Boeing flew directly overhead heading SE and left a huge contrail .... wow what a sight.

to make it even more exciting, I was viewing the Sun with the PST, and it went right through the view of the Sun in the eyepiece!!!! I looked up and there was the massive contrails!!

Rushed inside to get a camera, and would you believe it all 3 cameras had flat batteries!! hahaha, sometimes you just get unlucky.

Anyone else see it?

[MrB]

Damn, missed it!

[leinad]

I can't believe all three cameras had flat batteries!!! hahah
I would have got an awesome photo! :(

Keep your eyes open, hopefully another may fly through ?

[B1curran1]

late last week and on sunday this week I obsevered a Jet ( 2 trails quite large) trvelling from North to south over Albany WA

[leinad]

Nice contrails this morning around 8am over Perth.