{"id":84,"date":"2009-10-18T22:26:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T02:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.surls.net\/news\/?p=84"},"modified":"2009-10-18T22:26:41","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T02:26:41","slug":"update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.surls.net\/news\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Update!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow what a year! It has been way too long since my last post.<br \/>\nI won Cessna&#8217;s Learn to Fly contest at EAA&#8217;s Airventure 2008, after many months of delay they contacted me and I started ground school. During this time I jumped thru all the hoops and obtained my third class medical. That&#8217;s a story I will have to share sometime in the hope it will help others thru the process. I studied hard in ground school and scored well on the FAA written exam. I have been flying and learning a lot. Today I went on my third solo crosscountry flight from KAZO (Kalamazoo) to KMKG (Muskegon) down the coast and turned inland at KLWA (South Haven) and back to Kalazoo. Though I am gaining confidence, I still have a ways to go before I will be ready for my check ride.<br \/>\nHere is a picture of Holland, MI from todays flight  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.surls.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/p_2048_1536_5AB48C89-6BC6-4767-8BEA-C70FBCC21931.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.surls.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/p_2048_1536_5AB48C89-6BC6-4767-8BEA-C70FBCC21931.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow what a year! It has been way too long since my last post. I won Cessna&#8217;s Learn to Fly contest at EAA&#8217;s Airventure 2008, after many months of delay they contacted me and I started ground school. During this time I jumped thru all the hoops and obtained my third class medical. That&#8217;s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surls.net\/news\/?p=84\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Update!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surls.net\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surls.net\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surls.net\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surls.net\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surls.net\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.surls.net\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surls.net\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surls.net\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surls.net\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}