{"id":3368,"date":"2016-10-18T14:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T03:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2016-10-18T14:00:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T03:00:21","slug":"video-introduction-the-a22ls-kelpie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=3368","title":{"rendered":"Video introduction the A22LS &#8216;Kelpie&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yh857GWGbpU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3371\" src=\"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/kelpie-in-flight.jpg?w=627\" alt=\"kelpie-in-flight\" width=\"627\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/kelpie-in-flight.jpg 1864w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/kelpie-in-flight-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/kelpie-in-flight-1024x612.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/kelpie-in-flight-768x459.jpg 768w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/kelpie-in-flight-1536x918.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a>I recently mentioned the introduction of the new Aeroprakt A22LS &#8216;Kelpie&#8217; from Foxbat Australia &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yh857GWGbpU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here&#8217;s a short video with more information about the aircraft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The video\u00a0focuses on\u00a0the differences between the Kelpie and the popular A22LS Foxbat on which it&#8217;s based. The Kelpie is aimed more at farmers and landowners but even if you aren&#8217;t one of them, and still want a Kelpie &#8211; don&#8217;t feel you&#8217;re &#8216;barking&#8217; mad! The Kelpie retains all the great characteristics of the Foxbat &#8211; fantastic short field performance, almost helicopter-like view out, massive light &amp; airy cabin, great load carrying capability and sweet slow speed handling.<\/p>\n<p>Add to that\u00a0the fat tyres, rubber mud flaps, sturdy metal luggage bay (placarded at 30 kgs), climb prop, <a href=\"http:\/\/warningsystems.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australian Warning Systems<\/a> siren and UHF radio through the headsets and you&#8217;re close to an unbeatable utility aircraft. Almost 200 Australian Aeroprakt owners can&#8217;t be wrong!<\/p>\n<p>The Foxbat and Kelpie are factory-built and supported aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; To my UK friends, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australian_Kelpie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australian Kelpie<\/a> is a famous working farm dog, not a type of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historic-uk.com\/CultureUK\/The-Kelpie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mythical water-horse<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><em>[To see the video, click on the link above or on the photo]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently mentioned the introduction of the new Aeroprakt A22LS &#8216;Kelpie&#8217; from Foxbat Australia &#8211; here&#8217;s a short video with more information about the aircraft. The video\u00a0focuses on\u00a0the differences between the Kelpie and the popular A22LS Foxbat on which it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=3368\">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],"tags":[161,437,549,550,1022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368"}],"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=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}