{"id":710,"date":"2023-04-16T10:19:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T10:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paolocattani.com\/personal\/?p=710"},"modified":"2023-11-05T12:53:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T12:53:11","slug":"flying-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paolocattani.com\/personal\/flying-for-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying for real"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a child, I was fascinated by airplanes. I remember spending hours with my dad building model aircrafts (mostly gliders) and then flying them; and, as I got a bit older, my experiences with the first rudimentary flight simulators, such as the well known Sublogic&#8217;s &#8220;Flight Simulator II&#8221; for the Commodore 64.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, after so many years, thanks to a friend&#8217;s suggestion, I have finally decided to enroll in a flight school and to obtain my VDS license; although these are two-seater ultralight aircrafts, they are very much like general aviation aircrafts and are flown in much the same way. It&#8217;s truly exciting to actually pilot a Tecnam P92! From the virtual skies of my childhood to the real-world vastness I navigate today, this is a journey of passion, dedication, and the fulfillment of a dream that once seemed as distant as the stars!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a child, I was fascinated by airplanes. I remember spending hours with my dad building model aircrafts (mostly gliders) and then flying them; and, as I got a bit older, my experiences with the first rudimentary flight simulators, such as the well known Sublogic&#8217;s &#8220;Flight Simulator II&#8221; for the Commodore 64. Well, after so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paolocattani.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paolocattani.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paolocattani.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paolocattani.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paolocattani.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paolocattani.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"http:\/\/www.paolocattani.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paolocattani.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paolocattani.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paolocattani.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paolocattani.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}