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Old 20th Jun 2005, 20:27
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Dick Whittingham
 
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UK Met tephigrams used to have MINTRA lines on them, but I don't think they are plotted now. I have just called up a current Irish tephigram - no MINTRA. I think there used to be a DRYTRA line as well to mark the top of the contrail band.

I think, but memory is falible, that the old MINTRA related to piston engines, which had fairly consistent exhaust content and mixing, so contrails could be forecast with some accuracy. I do not recall ever using the MINTRA forecast when in a jet.

Dick W
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