{"id":38,"date":"1999-05-12T15:50:57","date_gmt":"1999-05-12T22:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"1999-05-12T15:50:57","modified_gmt":"1999-05-12T22:50:57","slug":"night-cross-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Night cross country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decided to just go ahead and finish up the night time while we waited to schedule another day cross country. I planned a trip to Santa Barbara (SBA), using easily recognizable landmarks. Turns out that picking a lake as a checkpoint at night doesn&#8217;t work real good &#8211; they are pretty DARK. We headed out around 9:00, towards the Fillmore VOR. Turns out you CAN see that at night &#8211; they put a light on top of it. The coastline, towns and airports (those with beacons anyway) all make fine checkpoints. I spotted the beacon at Santa Barbara 20 miles out.<\/p>\n<p>Landed, taxied back for takeoff and came home. Great flight! Kent decided that we&#8217;d do one more dual cross country (to Apple Valley, next week) and then he&#8217;d cut me loose for a solo cross country. In the meantime, I&#8217;m studying every night for the written, and going through a book on acing the oral as well. I&#8217;m still probably 6 weeks or more away from a checkride, but I want to be prepared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decided to just go ahead and finish up the night time while we waited to schedule another day cross country. I planned a trip to Santa Barbara (SBA), using easily recognizable landmarks. Turns out that picking a lake as a checkpoint at night doesn&#8217;t work real good &#8211; they are pretty DARK. We headed out [&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-38","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\/38","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=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}