# A pilot with too much time on his hands... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 2, 2008, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-with-too-much-time-on-his-hands/443702 "2008-04-02T19:10:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-with-too-much-time-on-his-hands/443702/1 "2008-04-02T19:10:21Z")
And apparently someone else paying for the fuel. Look [here](http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N750CX/history/20080307/1745Z/KICT/KICT) on flightaware for his flight track from Wichita, KS. (flightaware tracks flights by n-number using their flight plan. We use it to monitor some flights in the flight school.) ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-with-too-much-time-on-his-hands/443702/2 "2008-04-02T19:22:29Z")
Is that someone’s nutty idea for an LXC or perhaps just an April Fool’s joke? Hmm… not likely to be an April Fool’s thing seeing as the flight ended 25 days ago. They do like to fly high though! Most of the flight was at 43000 feet. Of course, if you had a [Citation X](http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=N750CX&distinct_entry=true) you probably wouldn’t be toddling along at 5,000 feet. ---
**Author:** ![silk1976](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@silk1976](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silk1976)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-with-too-much-time-on-his-hands/443702/3 "2008-04-02T21:25:12Z")
I wonder if the person was just practicing instrument procedures (which ones other than standard rate turns and timing, I dont know), and decided to have some fun while at it. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-with-too-much-time-on-his-hands/443702/4 "2008-04-02T23:37:15Z")
I think it would have been funnier if he had spelled “squawk 7500”. ---
**Author:** ![Crescend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Crescend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crescend)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-with-too-much-time-on-his-hands/443702/5 "2008-04-03T00:41:25Z")
Looks like that aircraft is owned by Cessna, not just manufactured by them. And that happens to be the Cessna company logo. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is a backhanded advertisement. In which case, kudos, dudes. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-with-too-much-time-on-his-hands/443702/6 "2008-04-03T01:58:17Z")
Man, that wasn’t a little trip around the neighborhood either, they covered 7 states with that flight, including airspace near St. Louis and Chicago among others. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-with-too-much-time-on-his-hands/443702/7 "2008-04-03T06:23:46Z")
That is too cool. Neat thing to do.