{"id":1076,"date":"2016-05-31T15:34:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T22:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innerairmanship.com\/blog\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2016-05-31T15:37:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T22:37:50","slug":"growing-up-as-a-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/31\/growing-up-as-a-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing up as a pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flyingmag.com\"><em>Flying<\/em> magazine<\/a> has a great article in the current (June) issue by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jtzim\">John Zimmerman<\/a>, &#8216;Growing up as a pilot: Transitioning from fear to mastery&#8217;. The last paragraph is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Done properly, the relentless pursuit of flying mastery can transform aviation from a hobby into a life-changing commitment. Understanding how your mind works, confronting risk and pushing yourself to learn new skills aren&#8217;t easy, but neither is growing up nor raising kids. Major life events \u2014 and flying definitely qualifies \u2014 often force you to confront who you really are, understand your fears and conquer your weaknesses.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1079\" src=\"http:\/\/innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/old-pilot.jpg\" alt=\"Old pilot\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/old-pilot.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/old-pilot-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/old-pilot-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/old-pilot-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/old-pilot-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I want to grow up as a pilot!<\/p>\n<p>John is\u00a0Vice President of Sporty\u2019s Pilot Shop\u2019s Catalog Division, and has written for <a href=\"http:\/\/airfactsjournal.com\/author\/johnz\/\"><em>Air Facts<\/em><\/a> online. This <em>Flying<\/em> article isn&#8217;t online, so it might be worth heading to a store to pick up the magazine.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;<\/em>You&#8217;re never done growing as a pilot. It&#8217;s a journey.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying magazine has a great article in the current (June) issue by John Zimmerman, &#8216;Growing up as a pilot: Transitioning from fear to mastery&#8217;. The last paragraph is: &#8220;Done properly, the relentless pursuit of flying mastery can transform aviation from a hobby into a life-changing commitment. Understanding how your mind works, confronting risk and pushing yourself to learn new skills aren&#8217;t easy, but neither is growing up nor raising kids. Major life events \u2014 and flying definitely qualifies \u2014 often force you to confront who you really are, understand your fears and conquer your weaknesses.&#8221; I want to grow up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/31\/growing-up-as-a-pilot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading Growing up as a pilot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[20,49,45,46],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-commitment","tag-inner-art","tag-mastery","tag-perpetual-pursuit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}