{"id":2344,"date":"2015-07-04T13:17:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T03:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2015-07-04T13:17:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T03:17:16","slug":"impact-a-cautionary-tale-of-bush-flying-gone-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=2344","title":{"rendered":"Impact &#8211; a cautionary tale of bush flying gone wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/features\/category\/live-to-tell\/impact-an-account-of-an-airplane-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2345\" src=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/impact.jpg?w=627\" alt=\"Impact\" width=\"324\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/impact.jpg 734w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/impact-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/features\/category\/live-to-tell\/impact-an-account-of-an-airplane-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&#8217;s an interesting story of a bush flight that didn&#8217;t go quite according to expectation<\/a>. A pilot and passenger executing a low level wildlife survey flight find themselves in a bit of bother when the passenger declares he needs a &#8216;comfort stop&#8217; and the pilot decides to land off airport.<\/p>\n<p>While reading, I found many of the pilot&#8217;s comments sounded just a little bit too familiar. Were those occasional close calls just exciting\u00a0experiences to relate in the flying club bar or had I taken them seriously as the lessons they almost certainly were?<\/p>\n<p>This story is written candidly by the pilot and has useful lessons for us all &#8211; read to the end!<\/p>\n<p><em>Story courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Backcountry Pilot<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting story of a bush flight that didn&#8217;t go quite according to expectation. A pilot and passenger executing a low level wildlife survey flight find themselves in a bit of bother when the passenger declares he needs a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=2344\">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":[1],"tags":[171,239,665],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344"}],"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=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}