{"id":628,"date":"2005-11-06T18:39:09","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T00:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nachzen.net:8080\/?p=628"},"modified":"2005-11-06T20:46:41","modified_gmt":"2005-11-07T02:46:41","slug":"flying-is-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=628","title":{"rendered":"Flying is expensive."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m now officially checked out in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/military\/systems\/aircraft\/t-41-pics.htm\">T-41C<\/a>, which is basically a 210-hp version of a Cessna 172.  This means I can rent one for $83\/hour (an astonishingly good price) from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usafaservices.com\/aeroclub\/aeroclub.htm\">Air Force Academy Aero Club<\/a> whenever I want.  Or at least, whenever there&#8217;s a plane available.  It was weird flying a high-wing with a yoke again.  Cool to fly something with some real horsepower.  It&#8217;s a 6-cylinder engine, so it&#8217;s smoother and makes cool gurgling noises.  Amusingly, it&#8217;s ancient (1969) with an airspeed indicator in MPH.  It cruises at about 110mph indicated, which really isn&#8217;t much faster than a 172.  But it climbs at nearly 1,000fpm even at 6,500 ft, something a 172 very much does not do.  And it&#8217;s got a max gross of 2500 lbs, so taking along two passengers is a piece of cake.  Three passengers if they&#8217;re not too bulky.  I got to fly into the Academy uncontrolled, which was simply weird.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is all so I can take Joanna flying.  (And Nathan, if he gets over his fear that I&#8217;m going to kill him.)  I scheduled the plane to take Joanna up next Sunday.  So those of you who volunteered to chip in on an airplane ride for Joanna, now&#8217;s your chance!<\/p>\n<p>I can even take it cross-country if I want.  They ask if I take it overnight somewhere that I average 2 hours\/day on the tach while it&#8217;s gone.  So I can go somewhere 3 hours away, spend two nights, and fly back.  That would be cool.  If only I had $500 to toss around like that:) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m now officially checked out in a T-41C, which is basically a 210-hp version of a Cessna 172. This means I can rent one for $83\/hour (an astonishingly good price) from the Air Force Academy Aero Club whenever I want. Or at least, whenever there&#8217;s a plane available. It was weird flying a high-wing with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonclassified-nonsense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}