Today is the final day to enter a contest designed to stimulate pilots to create awesome artwork in the sky. Not skywriting, but rather Lightspeed Aviation’s Wild Blue Doodle competition that calls for flying precise enough to create a piece of art aloft when tracked with Cloud Ahoy. So, why mention a contest that closes today? Because the process necessary to create these new works of art demanded serious out-of-the-box thinking, at least to a guy like me who learned to fly with a VOR and an NDB.
Wild Blue Doodle Contest Tests Pilot Thinking
Key Takeaways:
- Lightspeed Aviation's "Wild Blue Doodle" contest challenged pilots to create intricate aerial artwork by flying precise GPS patterns, tracked by Cloud Ahoy.
- The competition encouraged innovative flight planning, as exemplified by Brian Danza, who designed his art in Photoshop, mapped coordinates in Google Earth, and then flew the generated navigation file via his G1000.
- Although the entry period has closed, public voting for the submitted sky-doodles has just opened and will run until next Monday, with winners announced on October 11th.
- The contest aimed to encourage flying and test piloting skills, leading to surprisingly complex and artistic submissions.
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