{"id":3,"date":"1999-01-25T08:42:37","date_gmt":"1999-01-25T15:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=3"},"modified":"1999-01-25T08:42:37","modified_gmt":"1999-01-25T15:42:37","slug":"the-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=3","title":{"rendered":"The Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out that Marv had some minor surgery, so he can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fly for a week or so. Since waiting that long is OUT of the question, I scheduled another lesson with Kent at 4:30pm. Weather was hideous in the morning (as hideous as it gets in LA), but it cleared up later. Called the Van Nuys ATIS at 3:30 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c wind 160 at 5, sky 3500 broken. No problem.<\/p>\n<p>I did the preflight myself this time, with Kent pointing out a few key items along the way. Went through the checklists, start, radio ground, taxi, run up, radio tower, and onto runway myself. We flew out to a practice area over Simi Valley (for those who know the area) and practiced coordinated turns, slips, etc. Flew back, radioed for landing clearance, and ALMOST completely landed by myself. Kent had to hold us off the runway a bit so we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t PLOW into it \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m getting it down. Taxied back myself, shutdown via checklist and secured the plane.<\/p>\n<p>This is getting FUN.<\/p>\n<p>.7 hours\/2.0 total<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out that Marv had some minor surgery, so he can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fly for a week or so. Since waiting that long is OUT of the question, I scheduled another lesson with Kent at 4:30pm. Weather was hideous in the morning (as hideous as it gets in LA), but it cleared up later. Called the Van [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-private-pilot-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}