{"id":215,"date":"2009-05-03T08:07:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T15:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2009-05-03T08:07:26","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T15:07:26","slug":"us-glider-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"US glider license"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I got my standalone US glider license in the mail. Over the last month I went through the troubles of taking the written, fly with an instructor and finally take my check-ride with an FAA examiner. All went well and $400 later I&#8217;m holding my US certificate in my hands. This allows me to let my German licenses expire and still fly my glider. It was an educational experience and I have to say I&#8217;ve learned a couple of things on the way. After having flown now for 23 years, you don&#8217;t get to train rope breaks and slip to spot landings too often any more. I even learned a thing or two about the US airspace regulations. The whole ordeal was a fun experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I got my standalone US glider license in the mail. Over the last month I went through the troubles of taking the written, fly with an instructor and finally take my check-ride with an FAA examiner. All went well and $400 later I&#8217;m holding my US certificate in my hands. This allows me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=215\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US glider license<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}