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Flight draws Texas-shaped track over Texas

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Piper Cherokee draws Texas-shaped track over Texas (flightaware.com) 更多...

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ToddBaldwin3 3 年以前 17

As an Aggie, that longhorn offends me. Just kidding. I got a smile and a laugh out of it, thanks!

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Sam Johnson 3 年以前 14

Nice job.

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Roger Peck 3 年以前 10

Can you imagine trying to pull that off in the days prior to GPS? The closest you could get would be if you drew it out on sectional and followed off of the benchmarks on the ground. Very impressive, due to how really small an area he was working with.

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Roger Peck 3 年以前 6

Oops, assumption that the pilot was male. No intent on offending anyone.

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Robert Fleming 3 年以前 5

This was an incredible tribute (I believe) to the people of Houston, after what they went through before, during, and obviously after Hurricane Harvey! VERY VERY NICE!

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pilotjag 3 年以前 9

That is honestly the coolest, and most creative flightpath drawings I've ever seen!!!

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Mark Weiser 3 年以前 9

Ya gotta Love Texas, and only in America!

God Bless Airplanes - all of 'em!

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travistx 3 年以前 4

NOAA satellite photos from right after Harvey showed KIWS to be completely underwater, so it's great to see it as this flight's home base.

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James Carlson 3 年以前 2

It did prompt at least one shockingly ill-informed take:

https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/909962944167006209

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William Richardson 3 年以前 1

Am I the only one that thought it was 100% to scale and wondered how the hell a Cherokee did that? Of course, I clicked through and realized it's not Texas-sized. :)

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PAUL PETERSON 3 年以前 1

Great shot. What a Sunset.

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isardriver 3 年以前 1

very cool

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CB HARDY 3 年以前 1

How long before somebody flies a penis pattern over the country?

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CB HARDY 3 年以前 1

I'm sorry. That just came out.

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Paul Smith 3 年以前 1

I'm sure it's been done.

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Sirsparksalot 3 年以前 1

Awesome!! Hook'em Horns!!

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Chas Reed 3 年以前 -1

http://imgur.com/E4njBWT
http://imgur.com/20gjvMH

Amazing what a C-172 with a GTN 750 on AP can do… Except when it doesn’t… I had to hand fly it from the “C”
Thanks LittleNavMap & Skyvector

Flight Aware/X-Plane 11

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Tim Baker 3 年以前 -3

Why?

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Ken McIntyre 3 年以前 6

It was very likely some sort of test flight for endurance. Not legal to haul part 121 cargo on such a flight. Get real, or get educated.

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Ruger9X19 3 年以前 9

Or you could just google the name of the operator from the aircraft info block and find that COWLIN AVIATION LLC is a flight training service and have a post of their flight track on their Facebook page that says they did it for training.

"Did you catch our awesome #Texas #longhorn training flight yesterday?"
https://www.facebook.com/CowlinAviation/

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James Carlson 3 年以前 4

Or they were doing it to enter Lightspeed's contest. They're on the list of recent submissions:

http://www.cloudahoy.com/LS2017/contest/recent

http://www.lightspeedaviation.com/content/lightspeedaviation/CustomPages/promo/wildbluedoodle.htm

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30west 3 年以前 8

Ken,

I think it was probably done for the pure enjoyment, the satisfaction of doing something very cool and the simple pleasure of flying! Nothing more or nothing less. Certainly not an endurance test flight, flight time was only about two and a half hours.

Your comment "Not legal to haul part 121 cargo on such a flight. Get real or get educated" is quite puzzling. FAR Part 121.159 prohibits the use of single engine aircraft. It has nothing to do with "such a flight" as you stated. I won't quote your last sentence. ;-)

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Ken McIntyre 3 年以前 2

There are regs for delivering goods. If you accept ANY money, it is illegal as you are now a pay-for-hire flight. The pilots/owners MUST pay for everything, no donations. Maybe it's Part135. I shot a bit from the hip.

If someone wants to draw Texas in the sky near Houston, it's their business. I was annoyed by that post from layman. Looks like I wasn't alone.

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layman85 3 年以前 1

Mercifully, nor am I. https://www.operation-airdrop.com/, https://www.pilotsnpaws.org/hurricane-harvey-instructions

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Tim Baker 3 年以前 -7

It just dawned on me, it's a result of the new Facebook generation.

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