{"id":4166,"date":"2024-10-27T19:12:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T00:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/?p=4166"},"modified":"2024-10-27T19:12:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T00:12:40","slug":"10000-hours-off-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/?p=4166","title":{"rendered":"10,000 Hours off the Ground."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4167\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-10-27-15.21.43-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-10-27-15.21.43-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-10-27-15.21.43-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-10-27-15.21.43-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-10-27-15.21.43-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-10-27-15.21.43-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-10-27-15.21.43-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Of the 17439 days I have been alive, there have been 418,527 hours up until 3 pm today. Of those hours, 10,000 of them my feet have been off the ground in general aviation aircraft. What I have been doing up there has been a mix of flight training, flying on my own or with friends and family as a pilot, flying as a flight instructor for others, or providing practical tests for people finishing a phase in their own training.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">This equates to 2.39% of my life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I know there are lots of other people who do or will have more flight time than me, and honestly, not all of this time for me is &#8220;logged&#8221; because I don&#8217;t log time when I am acting as an examiner. But it really just felt like a milestone moment today.<\/p>\n<p>The best part is that I still am completely in love with the feeling of leaving the earthly bounds. I love being in the air, looking down at this amazing planet we get to all share.<\/p>\n<p>I am still amazed at how for literally thousands of years people dreamed of flying, and somehow we have the fortune of living in a time when doing so is fully achievable. And it isn&#8217;t something is limited to just a few of the super-rich in the world. A large number of people get the opportunity to experience flying as a passenger. Less, but still a pretty darn significant number of people get to fly aircraft on their own and professionally as a job.<\/p>\n<p>What an amazing thing. There are so many worse jobs in this world I could be doing. So having done it for, now 10,000 total hours of defying gravity flying time, I thought it was special. It is a very unique and rewarding opportunity I get to have every time I get to fly. And I can&#8217;t say thanks enough to my parents who let me start this process, my instructors who helped me along the way, and each and every person who I have had the opportunity to share the sky with being a part of all the memories.<\/p>\n<p>Now. Time to do it some more!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I just had to post this shadow landing my wife caught today when we came back to the ground.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"rumble\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v5i4xdn\/?pub=2c90d\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the 17439 days I have been alive, there have been 418,527 hours up until 3 pm today. Of those hours, 10,000 of them my feet have been off the ground in general aviation aircraft. What I have been doing &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/?p=4166\">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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166","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=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4171,"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions\/4171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}