A Ravenair pilot found a grandiose way to express his boredom during a test flight over north-west England and Wales after a part had been replaced on his aircraft.

As seen in a photo published by flight-tracking website Flightradar24, the pilot spelled out the phrase “I’m bored” through the aircraft’s flight path.

According to flight records, the Ravenair Piper Tomahawk took off from Liverpool at 11.25am on Saturday. Over the course of a two-hour flight, it passed over the Wirral peninsula, Cheshire and North Wales, with the message traced in tight, angular loops above the Dee Estuary, between Talacre and Greenfield, before the aircraft landed back on Merseyside at 1.30pm.

The pilot spent about 20 minutes tracing out the seven-letter phrase, prompting Aaron Rheins, a flight-tracking blogger on TikTok, to say: “I’ve never seen a pilot saying he’s bored by writing it in the sky.”

The message was formed at an altitude of approximately 335 metres (1,100 feet) and a speed of just under 100 knots, according to Flightradar24.

The airline said the pilot was a flying instructor in his 20s who had taken up the aircraft for a test flight following the replacement of a part, believed to be a cylinder. Ravenair’s operations manager, Wayne Barrett, said the pilot would face no repercussions, praising his flying skill. “I think the pilot was literally a little bored, as it was just a test flight. Mind you, it was pretty skilful flying,” he told the BBC. “He was a bit bored, but he probably had to concentrate a lot in the end to spell out the words, so I guess he wasn’t just bored.”