{"id":1814,"date":"2015-04-08T18:14:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T08:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2015-04-08T18:14:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T08:14:07","slug":"foxbat-near-miss-with-buzzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=1814","title":{"rendered":"Foxbat &amp; a near miss with a buzzard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Near miss with a buzzard\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KW5KDPZe-0k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  wp-image-1815 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/buzzard.jpg?w=627\" alt=\"Buzzard\" width=\"430\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/buzzard.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/buzzard-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/buzzard-768x524.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a>Subscriber James Pearce sent me this link to a video (click on the picture) which caught a near miss with a buzzard while flying his Foxbat in the UK &#8211; I didn&#8217;t know such large birds existed in good old Blighty! If you&#8217;re like me, you&#8217;ll probably miss it the first time round but we get a couple of slo-mo replays later. Makes you realise just how fast a bird strike\u00a0can happen.<\/p>\n<p>Please be warned &#8211; there are\u00a0some quite strong expletives from the pilot, so maybe make sure there aren&#8217;t any very young ears listening.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks also to James for his <a title=\"If in doubt \u2013 go round!\" href=\"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/2015\/02\/16\/if-in-doubt-go-round\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previous video on going around in the Foxbat.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscriber James Pearce sent me this link to a video (click on the picture) which caught a near miss with a buzzard while flying his Foxbat in the UK &#8211; I didn&#8217;t know such large birds existed in good old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=1814\">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":[4,1],"tags":[688],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814"}],"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=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}