Chemical Trails for Mind Control???
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Let me first start off by saying that I am not easily trolled, but here are a few things that drive me nuts. When pilots on the radio say “fish finder”, I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut. A close second on “Marks top ten list of things he hates” is the whole chemtrail thing. Obviously as pilots we understand what a ridiculous conspiracy this has become. Politicians are using videos of aircraft dumping fuel as “undisputed evidence” of chemtrails. For those who don’t have the internet (how would you be reading this if you didn’t?) and are unfamiliar with the term chemtrail, I will try to explain it. A chemtrail is a chemical trail left behind an aircraft. Pilots know this as contrails, or condensation trails. Theories include: spraying mind control substances to control the population, spraying hallucinogenic narcotics in the air to keep us from knowing the truth, and spraying chemicals to control global weather. Now, there are a few instances where the term chemtrail can be used. Crop dusting is a chemtrail for sure. Spraying pesticides on crops is a trail of chemicals. Weather mod might fall into the category as well. Salt flares once ignited emit a trail of smoke that modify microclimates, sure ok. But the conspiracy theorists are convinced there is a massive government cover up, and that pilots are all in on it. Recently there has been a Facebook page ad that has been showing up on my feed. It is so aggravating to read how people can be so ignorant.
If you don’t know what causes a contrail, it is fairly complex if you want to make it so, but it really has a simple explanation. Jet fuel is fairly crudely refined, in fact is barely refined. This means there is a certain concentration of water (among other impurities) in jet fuel. When the fuel is burned and exhausted, the water vapors that remain are expelled, and immediately turned into ice crystals. That is one, simple explanation of how contrails are formed. Now, atmospheric conditions play a huge role in this. Temperature and winds will cause the trail do either shift, dissipate or remain for minutes. The length of trails goes from just several feet, to several miles in length. This leads to ignorant people with tinfoil hats on to start making up theories to justify their fearful nature. There is no legitimate explanation to support the chemtrail theory. Just remember boys and girls, pilots are not taught where the chemtrail button is during flight school.[pullquote]
Caught a bunch of chemtrails today, and wouldn’t ya know it, I forgot my tinfoil hat…
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Actually even if there was no water in the fuel at all before burning, there is plenty after combustion. Gasoline and jet fuel are both hydrocarbons, so they contain both carbon and hydrogen. The combustion product of the former is carbon dioxide, and of the latter is dihydrogen oxide (water!)
The oxidation equation for gasoline (octane) is: 2 C8H18 + 25 O2 = 18 H2O + 16 CO2
It’s primarily this water vapor that freezes into ice crystals to form a condensation trail.
Hi Mark…I am a retired airline pilot and I agree with what you say about it is just that. The only thing you might want to keep in mind when you write another article demeaning the conspire theorists is to maybe be a little less condescending. Even though I agreed with what you were saying I had a hard time to keep reading with the belittlement which was not necessary.
For what it’s worth…
Ok, I have heard about chemtrails but I hate to admit I am unfamiliar with the reference “fish finder” that you hate to hear pilots use on the radio. Can you explain that one? (-: I promise (fingers crossed behind my back) to never use it on the radio.
Haha, chemtrails are one of my favorites. I was at a Seattle street fair years ago and one of the booths was titled CHEMTRAILS!. It was operated by a crazy looking guy with wild eyes, long stringy hair, an unkept white beard, who rambled on for 20 minutes about government mind control. He pointed to huge binders filled with “evidence”. I looked through a few of these binders and they were filled with emails which had been forwarded hundreds of times, as indicated by the deep rows of “>” symbols. It was nothing but speculation and junk science. These are the same nut cases who think George W. Bush personally engineered the destruction of the World Trade Center.
If you have to TELL someone it’s Evidence, it may not be quite so ‘EVIDENT’ after all! Thanks for the comment Ron glad to see you here!
It has reached a point where it is almost entertaining how dumb many of these people are. Some people just want to find problems though so this is an easy one to generate.
Dave you yourself fly one of these chem-puking machines….. how many barrels of that horrible goop do you load at once anyway???