{"id":250,"date":"2015-04-05T08:05:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T15:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innerairmanship.com\/blog\/?p=250"},"modified":"2015-04-04T17:08:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T00:08:26","slug":"ageless-aviator-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/05\/ageless-aviator-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Ageless aviator wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>AOPA Pilot<\/em> magazine magazine has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aopa.org\/News-and-Video\/All-News\/2015\/April\/Pilot\/f_ageless\">great article by Dave Hirschman in the April edition about the Mavericks, four Florida pilots who fly formation aerobatics together<\/a>. They are mostly in their mid-70&#8217;s. With long backgrounds in all kinds of flying. Ageless aviators with wisdom to spare:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Just like artists or musicians, we&#8217;re constantly striving to master our craft, to try new things, to improve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Bob Gandt, 75, US Navy, Pan Am &amp; Delta.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I still get a rush of adrenaline whenever we fly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Ron Keilin, 78, thirty-five years of airshow aerobatic experience.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_253\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1501p_age_008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-253\" src=\"http:\/\/innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1501p_age_008-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Photography by Chris Rose, AOPA\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1501p_age_008-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1501p_age_008-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1501p_age_008.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photography by Chris Rose, AOPA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">No two flights are exactly the same. And what you did on your last flight doesn&#8217;t mean anything for the next one. There are always ways to improve and more to learn. We pursue perfection, but no one ever quite attains it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Ron Keilin<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Don&#8217;t be impressed by total flying hours. Some of the worst pilots I ever flew with were senior airline captains with tens of thousands of hours of flight time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Bob Gandt<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_251\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1501p_age_007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-251\" src=\"http:\/\/innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1501p_age_007-600x413.jpg\" alt=\"Photography by Chris Rose, AOPA.\" width=\"600\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1501p_age_007-600x413.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1501p_age_007-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1501p_age_007.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photography by Chris Rose, AOPA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AOPA Pilot magazine magazine has a great article by Dave Hirschman in the April edition about the Mavericks, four Florida pilots who fly formation aerobatics together. They are mostly in their mid-70&#8217;s. With long backgrounds in all kinds of flying. Ageless aviators with wisdom to spare: Just like artists or musicians, we&#8217;re constantly striving to master our craft, to try new things, to improve. Bob Gandt, 75, US Navy, Pan Am &amp; Delta. I still get a rush of adrenaline whenever we fly. Ron Keilin, 78, thirty-five years of airshow aerobatic experience. No two flights are exactly the same. And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/05\/ageless-aviator-wisdom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading Ageless aviator wisdom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[60,35,49,45,46],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-link-to-articles","tag-artistry","tag-beginners-mind","tag-inner-art","tag-mastery","tag-perpetual-pursuit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","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=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}