While many people find novel ways to display pride in their country, pilot Mike Jones took to the sky over Southern Ontario in his Grob G 115 to trace a near-perfect outline of a Canadian maple leaf. The ADS-B trace was displayed on the aircraft tracking site FlightAware.
London, Ontario-based Jones, a semi-retired commercial pilot and flight instructor, started by tracing a maple leaf over a map. “I moved it over to my iPad. The iPad gave me all the coordinates in the flight plan, and I was able to upload it into the avionics in the airplane here,” he told CTV News. The entire flight on February 5 took over two hours and he travelled around 240 nm.
Flightradar24 posted the track on its Facebook page, and it garnered over 18,000 likes and 11,000 comments after just 24 hours.