{"id":3626,"date":"2023-02-25T18:11:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T23:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/?p=3626"},"modified":"2023-03-03T09:16:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T14:16:42","slug":"off-to-the-annual-for-charlie-tlc-efforts-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/?p=3626","title":{"rendered":"Off to the Annual for Charlie. TLC efforts underway."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3627 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023-02-24-17.07.04.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"682\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After an icy-slushy crusty mix of weather the day before, it was time to take advantage of a few hours of good afternoon weather and a dried-off runway to get Charlie to where her annual inspection will happen this year.<\/p>\n<p>Avoiding the Grand Rapids Class C airspace, I navigated over to the 24C airport in what is likely the last flight in Charlie for me for a few months. It was chilly, but I will miss her for a bit while she gets some TLC for the next flying year.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie is going to come out with some new tires, VGs, and a new cowling from this year to freshen some things up and get her ready for a few more years of flying, hopefully with me!<\/p>\n<p>We are treating this annual as a good mid-life checkup for Charlie and making sure everything isn&#8217;t just &#8220;legal&#8221;, but the goal is to reinvest a bit into her as a member of our family so we can have more years of flying fun ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, Charlie, behave well for the mechanic folks, and see you soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an icy-slushy crusty mix of weather the day before, it was time to take advantage of a few hours of good afternoon weather and a dried-off runway to get Charlie to where her annual inspection will happen this year. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/?p=3626\">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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charlie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3626"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3637,"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions\/3637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}