{"id":389,"date":"2010-08-24T05:33:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T12:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=389"},"modified":"2010-08-24T05:33:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T12:33:43","slug":"infinite-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"Infinite freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week I went flying with my ASW-24E. I self- launched, flew for 3.5h and landed again without seeing one soul. I had the airport to myself and enjoyed playing with the clouds. GPS was unavailable (due to the president coming to town?) so I had to navigate old school with map,compass and clock. Exciting! I hadn’t done that in years. My flight ended with a final glide all the way from Goldwaithe, some 60 miles northwest of the field. I started below glide path, gained enough altitude on the way, only to fall back under glide path 4 miles north of the field. I had to circle low, tempted to use the engine but milked a weak thermal instead. I was rewarded with a speedy last few miles, flying low and fast for a straight in on runway 16.
\nWhat a celebration of freedom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week I went flying with my ASW-24E. I self- launched, flew for 3.5h and landed again without seeing one soul. I had the airport to myself and enjoyed playing with the clouds. GPS was unavailable (due to the president coming to town?) so I had to navigate old school with map,compass and clock. Exciting! … Continue reading Infinite freedom<\/span> →<\/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":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","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=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}