Pilot of N8114F spells “God Bless” over Iowa

And their instructor thought they were simply going on short x-c flight!!

Yes! All people view the same GOD but with a different sense of "AWE"

Why? GOD is the only thing that is common among all religions and all nations! Only politicians create divisions by telling which GOD is better!

No uproar if spelled in Arabic in an Arab country.

Seriously though, what's going on with the 2000' elevation changes in the flight path?

I agree with you as long as you apply the same rule to yourself. Didn't you just violate the rule you want applied to everyone else? Your comment sounds like YOUR politics. Be the change YOU want for the world by never talking politics. Otherwise you will come off as "Don't speak, unless you agree with me."

I agree with you, Etienne.

However, I think it was the skill of the pilot that was being appreciated and not necessarily the message. At worst, it is a harmless message. It's not as if it said, "Believe in God or else be damned to hell."

It that not a fascist attitude in wanting other people's freedom banned???

Aviators Robert L. Scott, John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Richard Bach, and many others might disagree.

At least you can agree that there is an Almighty power that is holding that plane up in the air while spelling His name!

agree 100 % with you

In response to Joseph Nimee's comment- as a pilot I do know that this could be done. Would have been extremely hard to do prior to GPS/RNAV capabilities. However, with these capabilities and especially with the "breadcrumb" feature on a moving map it is not too difficult to do today. It does require careful planning and continuous monitoring of GPS ground track (which compensates for the wind effect). So, there is no good reason to think this is fake. It is so disturbing to keep hearing reference to the truth being fake, and there should be no tolerance in the aviation industry to the promotion of a fake idea.
Great job N8114F and blessings to you too!

What's shown is the actual real time course that the plane flew. This would not be affected by wind drift as you would see with sky writing.

Just because you can’t do something doesn’t mean someone else can’t.

For those who have responded to my original comment and bashing me here... ask yourself these five questions: 1) How many vfr flights have you ground tracked on flightaware? None! How does flightaware even know an airplane is airborne? From ATC reports based on a IFR flight plan that was open and closed from that ATC facility that the flight plan operated in. So if an airplane takes off vfr, from anywhere from any airport, flightware does not even know that particular airplane is out flying around unless its on an IFR flight, the plan is opened by and closed by ATC and ATC reports it to Flightaware. So if you had filed an IFR flight plan and atc opens it, NOW flightaware is "aware" that you are out. And even then, if its a VFR flight plan flightaware is not going to know anything about your flight because again vfr flights are not ground tracked. Only IFR are ground tracked, because the airplane is in continuous radar tracking that is being reported from atc to flightaware. Remember, flightaware is NOT getting their information from the aircfraft's GPS, they are getting it from Radar facilities... and unless the atc facility reports to flightaware that the plane is out there flightaware IS NOT GOING TO KNOW THAT. The only way an airplane that is not on a IFR flight plan is tracked is if the airplane reports to ATC and then, the only thing you get is "position reports" And I doubt that little Cherokee is ADS-B equipped. That leads us to the next question to ask.

2) How could he make these heading changes at will? The pilot of the airplane that did this "god bless" would have filed an IFR flight plan (in order to have ground tracking) and had it opened by ATC. If that were the case, he is now in strict operating rules that are dictated by traffic, and by heading changes, altitude changes, etc. On IFR a pilot cannot just go changing heading directions at will, unless he is granted a block of airspace to operate in, such as IFR training. So there is NO WAY he could have done this operating on a IFR flight plan. Which Leads us to the next question:


3) do you notice that the airplane took off and landed from MLI? But the ground track disappears. If the tracking is sooooo perfect? then why did it disappear there, but not anytime he was tracking the message? Next question.


4) Where is this pilot who did this? Obviously he did it so he and others would see it? right? well how come he hasn't come on here in this post from flightaware and left a comment? Surly other pilots in his flyingclub come to flightaware. I saw it, you saw it.. right? How come he hasn't come on here and proclaimed "its me! I did it, And here is how I did it"

5) Finally, If this was such a great feat... and such a great skill... how come not one news source outlet, anywhere has reported on this? How many times do we hear people carving messages in the ground, or corn fields, etc and its scene from the air and then reported in the news.. but flightaware or the author (the pilot) never reported this to any news outlet? Don't you think this would have made for a great story?

Finally, some bonehead commenter who replied to me said that what we are seeing is realtime tracking and that does not show wind drift just like sky writing. first of all sky writing is done in a very narrow portion of the sky where wind drift has very little or no affect. This god bless message appears to have been done over great many miles. Every pilot knows that wind greatly affects an airplane's course over a greater distances. The farther the distance the greater the error. And WINDDRIFT is exactly that... DRIFT... AND ITS REAL TIME and you don't know you have drifted unless you are off course. So unless there was NO wind that day, it can't be that perfectly over that many miles with out screwing up and redoing it a portion if the message somewhere along the way.

So unless this guy did this message on a day with NO WIND at any altitude ( which is meteorologically impossible), while on a IFR flight plan under ATC radar control and was the ONLY airplane flying that day where there where no other traffic to be vectored around, was free to make constant heading changes that over that great distance while operating on that flight plan, there is no way this was done. Seeing is believing... and when I see the actual pilot with a real name, comment on here and say "ITS ME.. I DID IT" .... I am not holding my breath.

Like I said... not even the Blue Angels fly that exact. And they would be the first to admit it.