{"id":1075,"date":"2006-04-05T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2006-04-05T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T19:35:00","slug":"i-can-walk-down-waverly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=1075","title":{"rendered":"i can walk down waverly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>and catch a glimpse of you and you<br \/>\nand you and you and you with me<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Private pilot checkride tomorrow morning at 8.  Including the oral and practical parts, it should last all morning.  I feel confident with everything except for my soft field landings, but my instructor and I are meeting an hour early tomorrow morning to get some of those in.<\/p>\n<p>Clear and windy today.  I flew solo down to Lexington and back, trying to get in as much practice as I could before the wind picked up.  The maximum crosswind capability of the airplane on landing is 15 knots (~17 mph) perpendicular to the axis of the runway, and it was close to it when I returned to Sugar Valley around 9 this morning.  But I remembered my crosswind techniques and got the plane on the ground smoothly and safely.  I&#8217;ll take that landing to the bank.<\/p>\n<p>Edit (11:23):  I take it back.  I&#8217;m really just enamored of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/old\/music\/14%20Cindy.mp3\">this one song<\/a> at the moment.  For best results, crank up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and catch a glimpse of you and you and you and you and you with me Private pilot checkride tomorrow morning at 8. Including the oral and practical parts, it should last all morning. I feel confident with everything except for my soft field landings, but my instructor and I are meeting an hour early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}