{"id":1898,"date":"2011-12-17T10:42:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T15:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesg.net\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2011-12-28T10:45:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T15:45:40","slug":"first-chance-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/?p=1898","title":{"rendered":"First Chance to Fly!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend one of my coworkers who&#8217;s a private pilot instructor invited me to go flying with him in a single engine aircraft.\u00a0 We met up at Kissimmee Airport around 8am, where Brian showed me the facility as well as the plane and how to go over the check list before flight.\u00a0 He wanted to see a testing facility that Mercury had, and I wanted to see UCF from the air, so that was our flight plan.\u00a0 Total flight time was around 1hr 15minutes.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1898 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon 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