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HPNPilot1200
2008-03-09, 11:26 PM
...to the Gulfstream flight track.

Gulfstream version. (http://flightaware.com/live/flight/GLF17/history/20070206/1538Z/KATW/KATW)

Cessna version. (http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N750CX/history/20080307/1757Z/KICT/KICT)

I'd say Cessna wins.
dimamo1983
2008-03-10, 01:19 AM
Ah, this is awesome. We had some interesting flight paths on our test CL604 but nothing that clever.
cancidas
2008-03-10, 01:20 AM
what brought this on? cessna won that one hands down!
Matt Molnar
2008-03-10, 12:12 PM
Greenpeace will not be happy about this.
adam613
2008-03-10, 12:12 PM
That is hilarious. I'd love to hear some of the ATC recordings of this flight.
wunaladreamin
2008-03-10, 01:36 PM
That is classic!
nwafan20
2008-03-10, 07:49 PM
Haha wow, that is awesome!
nwafan20
2008-03-10, 07:49 PM
Haha wow, that is awesome!
PhilDernerJr
2008-03-10, 07:58 PM
Is that for real?
PhilDernerJr
2008-03-10, 07:58 PM
Is that for real?
HPNPilot1200
2008-03-10, 08:00 PM
Is that for real?

Of course. Just a little friendly competition between Cessna and Gulfstream at the Flight Levels. A bit of a waste of Jet-A, but a cool marketing tool they may use in the future I would suspect.
HPNPilot1200
2008-03-10, 08:00 PM
Is that for real?

Of course. Just a little friendly competition between Cessna and Gulfstream at the Flight Levels. A bit of a waste of Jet-A, but a cool marketing tool they may use in the future I would suspect.
Lezam
2008-03-10, 09:11 PM
imagine being the pilot in that 8 hour pointless flight :)
Lezam
2008-03-10, 09:11 PM
imagine being the pilot in that 8 hour pointless flight :)
HPNPilot1200
2008-03-10, 09:36 PM
imagine being the pilot in that 8 hour pointless flight :)

I should have added earlier that these are often performance test flights so the 4 hours and 15 minutes of flight time is far from pointless in most cases.
HPNPilot1200
2008-03-10, 09:36 PM
imagine being the pilot in that 8 hour pointless flight :)

I should have added earlier that these are often performance test flights so the 4 hours and 15 minutes of flight time is far from pointless in most cases.
nwafan20
2008-03-12, 09:18 AM
Yeah, I was about to say, most likely this is a test flight and they decided to have some fun with it.
dimamo1983
2008-04-10, 01:35 AM
I was talking to Cessna test pilots over lunch yesterday and they confirmed that it was a fuel system test flight.
Funny thing, I said something like "So that flight about a month ago..." and they immediately knew what I was talking about :roll: