Citation X - N750CX

Good sense of humor by the test pilots. I actually flew on a few test missions in N750CX back when I was an engineer at Cessna.

 

There is a whole history of guys doing "flightaware skywriting." It started with some Gulfstream guys doing a coldsoak flight, who wrote "GV" over the midwest.

 

Cool but they could have made it vastly better with rounded nose and diagonal front lines for the wings.

4/10

 

Pretty cool.

 

I need to try that someday.... Hmmm what to write....

 

Looks like the Cessna test pilots have better penmanship

 

The way you do it is to lay out a series of points, preferably using VORs, in advance, and then file that route. If there isn't a VOR where you want to make a turn, you file lat/longs. Then you refuse any directs offered to you when airborne.

 

Cessna operates its test aircraft under special call signs beginning with "Cessna Test". ATC generally gives the test flights a lot of lattitude in vectoring.