{"id":446049,"date":"2021-10-29T09:16:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T03:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=446049"},"modified":"2021-10-29T09:50:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T04:20:24","slug":"im-not-a-pilot-but-i-just-flew-a-helicopter-over-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/im-not-a-pilot-but-i-just-flew-a-helicopter-over-california\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m not a pilot, but I just flew a helicopter over California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a recent Wednesday afternoon, I flew a helicopter over Ventura County, just north of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>I took off from a small airport, climbed to about 10,000 feet and banked sharply toward the hills along the eastern skyline of Camarillo. Following a canal as it snaked through the orange orchards below, I sped across the valley, before circling back to the airport. I lowered the helicopter into a hover and landed gently at the end of a concrete runway.<\/p>\n<p>The flight was short but remarkable. After all, I am not a pilot. <\/p>\n<p>The helicopter was equipped with new technology meant to simplify and automate the operation of passenger aircraft. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a recent Wednesday afternoon, I flew a helicopter over Ventura County, just north of Los Angeles. I took off from a small airport, climbed to about 10,000 feet and banked sharply toward the hills along the eastern skyline of Camarillo. Following a canal as it snaked through the orange orchards below, I sped across the valley, before circling back to the airport. I lowered the helicopter into a hover and landed gently at the end of a concrete runway. The flight was short but remarkable. After all, I am not a pilot. The helicopter was equipped with new technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}