{"id":1096,"date":"2014-11-07T09:31:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T22:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2014-11-07T09:31:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T22:31:07","slug":"overseas-visitor-to-foxbat-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=1096","title":{"rendered":"Overseas visitor to Foxbat Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"J\u00f6rg<\/a>Today I met J\u00f6rg (‘George’) Stobel and his partner Faten at Foxbat HQ in Tyabb Airport.<\/p>\n

J\u00f6rg has been involved with\u00a0Aeroprakt since the early days in the mid-1990’s. \u00a0Originally based in the UAE (where he still has a home) he is\u00a0now taking on the role as Aeroprakt agent for Thailand. J\u00f6rg also has a home in Phuket (life’s tough isn’t\u00a0it?) and\u00a0his\u00a0demonstrator A22 is kept an an airfield near Pattaya, just south east of Bangkok. I’ve seen pictures taken during his flights between the two\u00a0locations and they are straight out of a travel brochure – deep blue-green sea, little islets with trees down to the water and tiny secluded beaches.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I took each of them for a short trip in the skies over the Mornington Peninsula here in Victoria. It was a lovely day, if a bit hazy, but I guess the views can’t really compete with\u00a0those between Phuket and Pattaya…although both remarked on how green the countryside looks at the moment.<\/p>\n

J\u00f6rg and his partner – who works with Etihad Airlines – are in Australia for a few days to ‘relax, unwind and chill out’.<\/p>\n

It was great to sit and chat with them over a coffee about the early days\u00a0of Aeroprakt and hear about the times while they were working\u00a0to get the business going. But that’s over\u00a020 years ago now and Aeroprakt is\u00a0close to manufacturing their 1,000th aircraft. I will be offering spares and other service back up & support to J\u00f6rg while he is building his business in Thailand, and wish him\u00a0every success.<\/p>\n

At the weekend, J\u00f6rg \u00a0and Faten\u00a0are flying from Melbourne to Sydney to visit friends but we’re hoping to get a couple more flights in before then – maybe up around the top of Port Philip Bay to have a closer look at Melbourne and the bayside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I met J\u00f6rg (‘George’) Stobel and his partner Faten at Foxbat HQ in Tyabb Airport. J\u00f6rg has been involved with\u00a0Aeroprakt since the early days in the mid-1990’s. \u00a0Originally based in the UAE (where he still has a home) he … Continue reading →<\/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],"tags":[23,71,382,737,754,971],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}