{"id":782,"date":"2014-09-07T07:10:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T21:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=782"},"modified":"2014-09-07T07:10:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T21:10:31","slug":"foxbat-factory-visit-flying-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=782","title":{"rendered":"Foxbat factory visit &#8211; flying day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/screen-shot-2014-09-06-at-11-11-30-pm.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-783\" src=\"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/screen-shot-2014-09-06-at-11-11-30-pm.png?w=627\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-09-06 at 11.11.30 pm\" width=\"720\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/screen-shot-2014-09-06-at-11-11-30-pm.png 1134w, http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/screen-shot-2014-09-06-at-11-11-30-pm-300x168.png 300w, http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/screen-shot-2014-09-06-at-11-11-30-pm-1024x573.png 1024w, http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/screen-shot-2014-09-06-at-11-11-30-pm-768x429.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a>Saturday 6 September was flying day at the Aeroprakt factory and club airfield.<\/p>\n<p>Doug King and I were lucky enough to spend a fair bit of time flying in the Foxbat (both A22L2 and A22LS versions) as well as having a good look at other aircraft around the airfield and in the hangar.<\/p>\n<p>The photo here\u00a0has not been photo-shopped to look like this. It was taken with a a small Sony camera, similar to a GoPro, mounted on an extendable pole, held just outside the (removed) left hand door of a Foxbat. Apart from yours truly, the pilot is senior instructor Nadia from the Aeroprakt Club. Yuriy Yakovlyev was flying the other aircraft with Doug King.<\/p>\n<p>The reflection of the wing and the aircraft are all exactly as per the original shot &#8211; sometimes you just get lucky. Talking of which, a young photographer at the airfield managed the shot of a lifetime &#8211; using a huge telephoto lens, he captured a silhouette of a Foxbat against the almost-full evening moon. I&#8217;m hoping to get a copy and \u00a0put it on here &#8211; it really is a shot of a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>There are some other photos of the flying day <a title=\"Foxbat Pilot Flickr Aeroprakt visit 2014\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foxbatpilot\/sets\/72157647212457706\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here on the Foxbat Pilot Flickr Album.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, sadly, I am leaving the Ukraine to begin my eventual way home to Melbourne. Thank you everyone at Aeroprakt for making Doug and my visit so enjoyable and memorable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 6 September was flying day at the Aeroprakt factory and club airfield. Doug King and I were lucky enough to spend a fair bit of time flying in the Foxbat (both A22L2 and A22LS versions) as well as having &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=782\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3],"tags":[71,437,484,555],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}