{"id":40497,"date":"2023-12-26T02:39:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T07:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=40497"},"modified":"2023-12-25T14:44:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T19:44:37","slug":"pilot-creates-christmas-tree-flight-path-over-florida-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/12\/26\/pilot-creates-christmas-tree-flight-path-over-florida-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot Creates Christmas Tree Flight Path Over Florida Skies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The unidentified pilot took 1 hour and 41 minutes to fly 213 miles and draw the festive pattern, which shows a Christmas tree with a star on top<\/p>\n\n\n

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A pilot drew a Christmas tree <\/a>with his fight path over the Florida skies this holiday weekend, and flight-tracking software was able to capture the image and journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flying a private single-piston Piper Dakota\/Pathfinder aircraft owned by a Jacob L. Faulkner, the unidentified pilot took 1 hour and 41 minutes to fly 213 miles to draw the festive pattern, data from FlightAware.com shows. <\/a>The plane took off at 12:27 p.m. EST Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It launched from Florida\u2019s Punta Gorda airport and landed back there at 2:08 p.m. EST, flight data shows. The Christmas tree drawn by the plane\u2019s flightpath can be seen on FlightTracker.com and it even features a star on top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going by FlightAware\u2019s data, the drawn tree is about 25 miles tall, drawn north to south, and a little over 15 miles wide, drawn east to west.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Piper Dakota Pathfinder aircraft seats four and has a top speed of 170 miles-per-hour, according to Plane and Pilot Magazine.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn 1979, Dakota became the name of Piper\u2019s 235-hp four-seater,\u201d Plane and Pilot Magazine explains. \u201cThe Dakota boasts more useful load and range plus a shorter takeoff distance and faster cruise than any plane in its class.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The unidentified pilot took 1 hour and 41 minutes to fly 213 miles and draw the festive pattern, which shows a Christmas tree with a star on top A pilot… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"14","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[7143],"class_list":["post-40497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-pilot-creates-christmas-tree-flight-path-over-florida-skies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}