California Skywatch

Federal Aviation Administration, National charting Office at www.naco.faa.gov

This map (chart) shows the flight paths, airports, gives Airport Data, Airport Traffic Service & Airspace Information, Topographic Information, Types of Airspace, etc. - This map also shows the Military Operations Area (MOA), Designations: Lake County = Maxwell MOA 1, Redding & Red Bluff = Maxwell MOA 2, and Mendocino County = Maxwell MOA 3. (These maps are available locally at the Ukiah Airport.) If you like detailed information a great source of information.

When our elected public officials are asked to investigate increasing air pollution here from this jet spraying they have refuse to respond. Why? Our elected officials should be able to ask the FAA or NOAA where the jets are coming from and where they are going. If the FAA can't see the planes is it because the Air Force is releasing so much Chaff (radar-reflective clouds) that FAA radar can't detect these jets? Maybe there is a cover up regarding this program?

If the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration), NOAA, and/or our United States military services don't know what is flying above us on any given day, how safe are we from terrorist attacks. Since 9/11/2001, our government should be studying every plane in the air to make sure that another World Trade Center disaster won't happen again. How could the number of Jet airplanes flying here on a regular basis not be identified by our military or the FAA? This is something that our elected representatives should investigate.

FAA & NOAA Flight Maps are available showing commercial airline routes (show MOAs - Military Operations Areas), over every area of the United States. It is interesting to note that commercial airline flights don't travel east to west or west to east over Mendocino, Lake and Sonoma Counties. There are specific routes that commercial airline fly (note that on the days the unmarked jets are flying we have lingering contrails-on the days they don't fly our skies are clear - why?).

The non commercial jets fly in every direction across our Mendocino and Lake counties. Parallel flights, crisscross flights, tic-tac-toe patterns, zigzag or many changes of directions in flight. Many flights, especially when there is a blitz of contrails being left are seconds apart - and many pictures have been obtained with several jet planes leaving contrails in one picture. These types of flight patterns are not indicative of commercial airline flights, due to the high cost of jet fuel, and air time from one destination to another.