Thanks for the enligtment

There are three reasons why we can have white clouds behind an aircraft during flight.
1. Condensation trails
2. Wing tip Vortices
3. Fuel dumping

Thanks OP

anochuko01:
no! never! its the baby that'll be charged...

Savage man

Kessykelly:
I know our ladies will not read this

we read it and even doubt the authenticity and facts herein presented! Hence more research needed!

Enlightened

Informative

Kessykelly:
I know our ladies will not read this

Shift..... I did

Hotfreeze:
White clouds behind airplanes aren't fuel, don't let the OP mislead you.

Those white streaks planes leave behind are actually artificial clouds. They're called contrails, which is a shortened version of the phrase “condensation trail." Airplane engines produce exhaust, just like car engines do. As hot exhaust gases escape from a plane, the water vapor in the fumes hits the air.

U people av serious problems! Why not come up with your counter claims instead of trying to rubbish another man's post.

OboOlora:
Techcapon!!!!!!!!!!!!

We go fight oh. Abeg nor de run away abeg, posts like this are the reasons I come to frontpage

Not Timaya is fighting Tuface or DBanj is on his way to Haiti and all those other bull crap!

lol. You funny. Good morning

overdrive:
will the pregnant woman be charged for the dumped fuel

You af mind

Hotfreeze:
White clouds behind airplanes aren't fuel, don't let the OP mislead you.

Those white streaks planes leave behind are actually artificial clouds. They're called contrails, which is a shortened version of the phrase “condensation trail." Airplane engines produce exhaust, just like car engines do. As hot exhaust gases escape from a plane, the water vapor in the fumes hits the air.

Yeah they are contrails....

TechCapon for President 2019
Lalasticlala for NNPC chairmanship
Explorers for ministry of Foreign Affairs

Why is Op misleading the public about Contrails?


Fuel dumping is very very rare while contrails are very common.

Seen mostly in more temperate areas than the tropics they are formed by warm jet exhaust forming a differently colored cloud as they condense.

@techcapon

Kessykelly:
I know our ladies will not read this

wen is not bobrisky, Davido vs Timaya, or Time makinwa story

Lokoyen:



U people av serious problems! Why not come up with your counter claims instead of trying to rubbish another man's post.

Which useless post? You think pilots dump fuel indiscriminately?
I pointed out the fallacy in his post and you're talking nonsense.

The OP doesn't know Jack about aviation and he's talking arrant nonsense as far as this matter is concerned.

You on the other hand are incapable of learning anything useful.

TechCapon:
TechCapon



EMERGENCY

For example, a plane that’s suppose to fly from Lagos to New York city loads enough fuel to reach their destination. Everything is going fine then suddenly a pregnant woman who is on board goes into labor. If there’s no nurse on board and the flight attendants cannot handle the issue, the only choice will be to make an emergency landing.

The flight crew will alert the pilots on the situation and the pilots will have to land in the nearest airport. The first thing the pilots will check is the weight of the aircraft. For an aircraft that has enough fuel to reach New York, of course the landing weight will be far above normal. In this scenario, the pilot must dump enough fuel in order to reduce the weight of the aircraft before landing.



The pilots have no choice. There are 3 things that add weight to an aircraft. Passengers, luggage and fuel. Obviously the pilots cannot dump passengers. Neither can they dump cargo (except in very rare cases), the only option is to dump fuel.

The pilot will dump the fuel, make the emergency landing in order to get the pregnant woman to the hospital, refuel before they can continue the journey. Of course dumping fuel is a big loss to the airline companies. They lose big money anytime these things occur but it’s better to dump fuel than land an overweight aircraft thereby damaging the aircraft or jeopardizing the lives of everyone on board.

SOURCE:https://techcapon.com/this-is-the-major-reason-why-pilots-dump-fuel-before-landing/

lalasticlala
mynd44
dominique

interesting read - thanks for the knowledge

We learn everyday. I ask a friend of mine just last week the reason for the white smoke he said the white smoke stand for peace. He said when an aircraft is flying above a troubled state or country(country like Nigeria with boko haram wahala), they release the white smoke. Thank for this info.

Op thank u Jare... b4 I used to think it was Jet that is flying and releasing some smoke...

Hotfreeze:
White clouds behind airplanes aren't fuel, don't let the OP mislead you.

Those white streaks planes leave behind are actually artificial clouds. They're called contrails, which is a shortened version of the phrase “condensation trail." Airplane engines produce exhaust, just like car engines do. As hot exhaust gases escape from a plane, the water vapor in the fumes hits the air.

Lokoyen:

U people av serious problems! Why not come up with your counter claims instead of trying to rubbish another man's post.

@Lokoyen, Can you swear you didn't read a counter claim in that post above? Wonderful!

Someone graciously pointed out that the report on this thread is very misleading and the best you can do is attack the person?.... Do you really love misinformation that much?.. Ahh!

checky619:
OP IS TOTALLY WRONG.... PLEASE DON'T MISLEAD PEOPLE. DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE POSTING

Google and Wikipedia can help. The first pic is about fuel dumping, the second is contrial

Thanks mr lecturer. Your lecture is educative and has broaden my knowledge,

If it is where I purposely for trouble, the op will be sued for this misleading post, well, I blame Nigerians, the take whatever is been given to them, abeg I will personally report u to admin

the first image i just post shows that of a "FUEL DUMP". while the second image attached here is that of a "CONDENSATION TRAIL" shortened as "CONTRAIL". So you can see the similarities. You might have seen both before but i bet not so many persons had an idea what the white trail behind jets really were.
Good morning.

When I was small, one uncle used to lie to us that the whitish discharge behind plane is the plane's road.

APC dumping 2019

Hotfreeze:
White clouds behind airplanes aren't fuel, don't let the OP mislead you.

Those white streaks planes leave behind are actually artificial clouds. They're called contrails, which is a shortened version of the phrase “condensation trail." Airplane engines produce exhaust, just like car engines do. As hot exhaust gases escape from a plane, the water vapor in the fumes hits the air.

TechCapon, stick to your tech blogging about chargers and earpieces and stop misleading people. You think pilots dump fuel indiscriminately? Nigger thinks aviation fuel is tap water.

i thought i was the only one who noticed his horseshit.lol

generalissimo:
TechCapon for President 2019
Lalasticlala for NNPC chairmanship
Explorers for ministry of Foreign Affairs

This OP should be arrested immediately for this highly misleading information.

Fuel dumping kor, Fuel wasting ni.

in my ignorant days until tjus moment, whenever i saw those white lanes or marks behind a flying plane, i thought and unashamedly tell others that it was the road in the sky if an aircraft. make una no blame me ooo.

Hotfreeze:
White clouds behind airplanes aren't fuel, don't let the OP mislead you.

Those white streaks planes leave behind are actually artificial clouds. They're called contrails, which is a shortened version of the phrase “condensation trail." Airplane engines produce exhaust, just like car engines do. As hot exhaust gases escape from a plane, the water vapor in the fumes hits the air.

TechCapon, stick to your tech blogging about chargers and earpieces and stop misleading people. You think pilots dump fuel indiscriminately? Nigger thinks aviation fuel is tap water.

this is what I used to know too until this post.
I'm having headache in my stomach sef