{"id":3676,"date":"2017-10-18T12:02:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T01:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=3676"},"modified":"2017-10-18T12:02:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T01:02:04","slug":"the-man-who-got-me-started-on-foxbats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=3676","title":{"rendered":"The man who got me started on Foxbats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/gordon-faulkner-photo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3678\" src=\"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/gordon-faulkner-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"386\" \/><\/a>Back in 2001, I went for my first demo flight in an Aeroprakt A22 Foxbat &#8211; piloted by Gordon Faulkner, the then UK agent for the aircraft. I ordered a Foxbat and, when soon after, I told him I was moving to live in Australia he encouraged me to ask the factory if I could represent them in Australia, and gave me good reference. Gordon had lived in Victoria for a few years and had many fond recollections of his flying in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The factory agreed to appoint me as their dealer in Australia and the rest, as they say, is history.<\/p>\n<p>So I was interested to read this letter about Gordon in the latest issue of the UK&#8217;s &#8216;Microlight Flying&#8217; magazine (click on the picture above &#8211; Gordon&#8217;s the one on the right &#8211; to download a readable copy of &#8216;The man&#8217;s a gent&#8217;). It fully matches my own experiences of Gordon, from his considerable help with building my first Foxbat, through to training me to fly it.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years since then, I have lost contact with Gordon. But a big thank you to the man who set me on the road to what has been an exciting and rewarding journey representing the Aeroprakt factory in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2001, I went for my first demo flight in an Aeroprakt A22 Foxbat &#8211; piloted by Gordon Faulkner, the then UK agent for the aircraft. I ordered a Foxbat and, when soon after, I told him I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=3676\">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":[486,543,652],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676"}],"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=3676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}