{"id":2893,"date":"2015-12-17T13:28:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T02:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2015-12-17T13:28:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T02:28:25","slug":"15-year-old-solos-in-a-foxbat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=2893","title":{"rendered":"15 year-old Bryce tells of his first solo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2922\" style=\"width: 637px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8-_j9ZjFveQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2922\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2922 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/12\/bryce-first-solo.jpg?w=627\" alt=\"Bryce first solo\" width=\"627\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/bryce-first-solo.jpg 1323w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/bryce-first-solo-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/bryce-first-solo-1024x530.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/bryce-first-solo-768x398.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2922\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bryce&#8217;s first solo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After only 4.25 hours&#8217; dual instruction, and barely three months after his 15th birthday, Bryce went\u00a0solo in Foxbat 24-7277 at Tyabb Airport in Victoria. Fantastic news and congratulations Bryce!<\/p>\n<p>Bryce has been &#8216;borrowing&#8217; friend Mike Rudd&#8217;s venerable red A22LS for his training, which has been conducted with instructors from the Peninsula Aero Club (PAC). On Friday 4 December Senior PAC Instructor Tony checked out Bryce for the final time to ensure\u00a0his take-offs, landings and emergency procedures were all A1 OK. He\u00a0then stepped out of the aircraft on the apron to give Bryce his first of what I&#8217;m sure will be many solo take-offs and landings.<\/p>\n<p>You can see and Bryce&#8217;s own recounting\u00a0of his first solo by clicking the picture above or by clicking here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8-_j9ZjFveQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bryce&#8217;s first solo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>As a bit of background, Bryce has been flying as a passenger in light aircraft since the age of 8 &#8211; aided and abetted by his grandfather, Terry, who owns an original SkyFox taildragger. In fact, Bryce has probably flown in more different types of aircraft than I have, taking the chance to fly whenever it was offered. That experience, together with his own natural inquisitiveness has helped Bryce solo in such a short time.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After only 4.25 hours&#8217; dual instruction, and barely three months after his 15th birthday, Bryce went\u00a0solo in Foxbat 24-7277 at Tyabb Airport in Victoria. Fantastic news and congratulations Bryce! Bryce has been &#8216;borrowing&#8217; friend Mike Rudd&#8217;s venerable red A22LS for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=2893\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893"}],"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=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}