{"id":4260,"date":"2020-10-12T04:26:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T09:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/?p=4260"},"modified":"2020-10-12T04:26:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T09:26:39","slug":"oct-7-2020-fall-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/?p=4260","title":{"rendered":"Oct 7, 2020 &#8211; Fall Flying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Flying has been great!<\/strong> I&#8217;ve been flying quite a number of hours per month lately. I&#8217;ve also been busy studying for work, learning handgun safety and techniques, dieting and exercise. Exercise has been lacking, honestly, but everything else is going gangbusters.<\/p>\n<p>I am an examiner in both the G280 and Astra at this point, and we just completed our first recurrent client in the G280 program. He left happy and the Wilmington team did a nice job with it. More on that in a subsequent blog.<\/p>\n<p>I did a nice flight to West Virginia with a friend last month to retrieve her mom and bring them both back for a wedding. That flight went very well, but had to wait until I replaced a failing vacuum AI. Done and Done. The Twin Comanche beat airline and driving options to that region handily.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Life gets in the way of the fun stuff occasionally.<\/strong> I have one of the multiple tankless heaters in the house that won&#8217;t fire, a new door that has to be cut and installed, a porch construction project about to begin, and several other home projects tanking my time.<\/p>\n<p>My sister is also not doing well, with a serious health issue threatening her future. That is occupying my mind and one of my top priorities for this fall and next year. I will most likely get back to blogging and videos as the fall progresses and a routine develops, but wanted to explain the lack of activity.<\/p>\n<p>Two new videos coming soon to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCrRjM6rJqn9JlA98drFg9MQ?view_as=subscriber\">YouTube channel<\/a>. The Rae Ann flight and then a subsequent flight where I talk about the use of the Piper Altimatic III B autopilot. I&#8217;ll add a blog on the later next &#8211; most likely weeks away.<\/p>\n<p>Fly Safe!<\/p>\n<p>Frank<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying has been great! I&#8217;ve been flying quite a number of hours per month lately. I&#8217;ve also been busy studying for work, learning handgun safety and techniques, dieting and exercise. Exercise has been lacking, honestly, but everything else is going gangbusters. I am an examiner in both the G280 and Astra at this point, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-home-page","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4261,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions\/4261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}