{"id":336,"date":"2006-10-26T16:24:23","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T22:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squids.ca\/Blog\/?p=336"},"modified":"2006-10-26T21:22:22","modified_gmt":"2006-10-27T03:22:22","slug":"flight-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"Flight Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m becoming quite good at this radio controlled slope soaring caper.  Over the last couple of weeks I&#8217;ve been getting regular flights of 20 minutes to an hour.  The real challenge now is flying in lighter winds when you have to be very careful and not push the glider around and of course landings.  Half of my landings are &#8220;slow &#8211; stall &#8211; spin &#8211; splat&#8221;.  The EPP glider sure takes a beating and keeps coming back.  I&#8217;ve had to do some minor repairs but given the amount of crashes, it is amazingly tough.  The forcast for the weekend is fine with northerlies.  Perfect.<\/p>\n<p>This is what I&#8217;m flying now:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canterburysailplanes.co.nz\/index.php\/item\/department\/Gliders\/item\/Eraser%2060.html\">Eraser 60<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this is what I&#8217;m building!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canterburysailplanes.co.nz\/index.php\/item\/department\/Gliders\/item\/Arrow.html\">Arrow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m becoming quite good at this radio controlled slope soaring caper. Over the last couple of weeks I&#8217;ve been getting regular flights of 20 minutes to an hour. The real challenge now is flying in lighter winds when you have to be very careful and not push the glider around and of course landings. Half&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}