{"id":27,"date":"2014-04-26T07:02:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annaeppink.com\/wpae_\/?p=27"},"modified":"2015-05-21T17:39:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T00:39:41","slug":"3-weeks-to-americus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annaeppink.com\/avianna\/3-weeks-to-americus\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Weeks to Americus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Americus is fast approaching. In three weeks I’ll be arriving for my first comp and I am as ready as I’ll every be.<\/p>\n

\"Pre-flight<\/a>

Pre-flight rituals at Laguna launch<\/p><\/div>\n

Flying has been great the last few weeks. 5 hours in the air just last weekend alone. Over 30 hours so far this year. I have pushed myself to go XC more, and in doing so found new challenges and compromising predicaments. I’ve grown more confident and yet very humbled all in the same weekend.<\/p>\n

Last Saturday I dug my way out after getting very low far from any roads, and then continued on for an incredible flight. What a great feeling that was! I’m told the area I was low is littered with cacti\u2014certainly a lesson best learned by someone else’s mistake.<\/p>\n

The following day after starting the flight well and in half the time getting to where I landed the day before, I ran into insurmountable sink. So much sink that I was forced to land in a small field more than a quarter mile from any road. Officially that makes me a cross-country pilot, right? The hike out would have been more enjoyable had I set a personal record or could not blame my in-flight decisions. Instead I feel deceived by the convergence line which started to zig-zag. Following the convergence and staying under the clouds, I kept up with every zig, but then ran into a zag full of sink. Some very valuable lessons learned in only two days.<\/p>\n

I am very happy with myself for about 50 miles of XC in one weekend. Soon, very soon I feel my day will come for a (first) 50 mile flight.<\/p>\n

So yes, I am excited about the upcoming trip to Georgia. My experience flying flat lands is limited, but as we always say, the secret is to turn in lift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Americus is fast approaching. In three weeks I’ll be arriving for my first comp and I am as ready as I’ll every be. Flying has been great the last few weeks. 5 hours in the air just last weekend alone. Over 30 hours so far this year. I have pushed myself to go XC more, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,26,30],"tags":[153,154,152,145,146],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annaeppink.com\/avianna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annaeppink.com\/avianna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annaeppink.com\/avianna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annaeppink.com\/avianna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annaeppink.com\/avianna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/annaeppink.com\/avianna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/annaeppink.com\/avianna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annaeppink.com\/avianna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annaeppink.com\/avianna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annaeppink.com\/avianna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annaeppink.com\/avianna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}