A Lake County Man Uses His Flight Path to Tell His Wife ‘I Love U’
Frank Dollosso’s Flightpath over Clear Lake. [Screenshot of FlightRadar image]
Dellosso told us he has been married to his wife Michelle for 23 years, and he was thinking about ways that he could surprise his wife. “Birthdays, holidays, and anniversaries are always special days. But what about the time in between?”
He had an idea. Dollosso sat down and used a program called Foreflight he uses to map his routes when he flies his Cessna Skyhawk and mapped out a route that after completing it would leave a flight path that spelled “I ♡ U Shell”, Shell being his wife’s nickname.
With his plan in mind, yesterday he flew above the blue waters of Clear Lake, thinking of his wife Michelle, and followed the GPS coordinates that would form his message of love.
Yesterday was not an anniversary, Dollosso told us. “There was nothing special about [yesterday], just me thinking of her.”
After his 32-minute flight, he landed and got a call from his wife inquiring about a plane that had just flown above their home. While he had her on the phone, Dollosso revealed his sky message by asking her to look up their plane to see where it went on yesterday’s flight. Dollosso said, “When she did, she was very surprised. And she said she loved it.”
This article is written by Matt LaFever, the lead reporter and founder of MendoFever.com, our brother news site based in Mendocino County. If you’d like to contact him directly, email him at [email protected]
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Nice! I like it!
I bet Shell did too. Many happy returns!
Hooray for The Happiness News! 👏🏼🎉🎁🎶💯💐
Whatever. Use a pen and save the fuel.
Right? Guess i’m a curmudgeon, but if i saw my name written in sky pollution, i would say someone didn’t really get me, or get anything important, at all.
I Love You Hell?
Shell, well, what the hell. I think the guy should embroider it on a napkin or pillowcase. The illustration of how to do it with one continuous line is pretty handy. That way, too, the whole rest of the world wouldn’t have to be privy to their sweet little correspondence. Get a room, people! The sky should be blank for us all to project our fantasies upon; it’s nobody particular’s personal messaging system.
It’s not in the sky actually. FlightAware just tracks all planes flying around. It draw an imaginary line where the plane went. The little plane probably burnt the same fuel as the old creeper van driving around the lake.
Oh! Silly me. I read too fast or skimmed. I read that he asked her to “look up… the plane” and thought it meant look up in the sky, as if he had just left a message in white trails in the air. Well, this is different, and if it hadn’t been in the news release, a private matter. Thanks for the clarification.
(Still, to me using fossil fuel to send a message in any way would not be advisable. Kind of like people who drive trucks all over the beach to “draw” pictures or write things that are only visible from the sky. Eye roll, but that’s just because i’m on the ground and prefer to use engines and machines, esp. the noisy, pollution-spewing ones, as little as possible. Yes, though, i know i drive a little truck and i use a computer, etc. So i get no halo.)
Love is in the air . . . .