{"id":205,"date":"2011-10-11T14:08:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T21:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2011-10-11T14:08:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T21:08:57","slug":"new-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/new-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"New Pilot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_206\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-206\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-206\" title=\"IMG_2014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2014-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2014-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2014-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carl, Private Pilot<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a really exciting week here at Seattle Seaplanes.\u00c2\u00a0 We have a brand-new private pilot in our &#8220;family&#8221; now!<\/p>\n<p>Carl started taking lessons here last year.\u00c2\u00a0 He walked in one day, announced he wanted to learn to fly, and learn to fly <em>here<\/em>, so we were more than happy to oblige.\u00c2\u00a0 He stuck it out through various and sundry hurdles (bureaucratic, meteorlogical, mechanical, etc.) and studied diligently.\u00c2\u00a0 He&#8217;s got such a friendly, can-do attitude, and we&#8217;ve really enjoyed having him around!<\/p>\n<p>Earning one&#8217;s pilot license takes a lot of hard work, but it&#8217;s super rewarding, too. We&#8217;re one of the only flight schools in the entire country where a person can earn their initial private certificate on floats.\u00c2\u00a0 How cool is that?\u00c2\u00a0 (Carl would tell you &#8220;pretty darn cool!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>We hope to see more of Carl in the days and weeks ahead, especially when he brings his son, Simon, down to visit.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Carl&#8217;s now joined the ranks of only about 600,000 people in the entire USA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaservesamerica.com\/about\/pilots.html\">proud holders of FAA pilot certificates.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/a>We&#8217;re all very proud of him!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Carl!<\/p>\n<p><em>cheers,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Toby James<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It&#8217;s been a really exciting week here at Seattle Seaplanes.\u00c2\u00a0 We have a brand-new private pilot in our &#8220;family&#8221; now! Carl started taking lessons here last year.\u00c2\u00a0 He walked in one day, announced he wanted to learn to fly, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/new-pilot\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flight-training","category-toby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}