{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "wait you're a pilot? you should fly to Japan!", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/626680128381075456/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: <p>wait you're a pilot? you should fly to Japan!</p></div>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"/post/626673330081120256/\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote><p>I was ready to solo at 13 and nominally you had to be 16 but you could get a waiver but then the Jessica Dubroff thing and the FAA was on edge</p><p>Like, I can take-off and land a tricycle gear single piston-engined plane with no propeller pitch control under VFR, and navigate based on the other guy in the cockpit recognizing things, thats actually pretty limited</p><p>(but I can do that crabbing into a crosswind on a semi-improved ridgetop grass field)</p></blockquote><p><p>the one condition under which I can see taking up flying again is if I move to Alaska, in which case \u201cflight to Japan\u201d would become an achievable capstone</p></p>"}