{"id":1058,"date":"2025-06-26T18:07:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akaflieg.nl\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2025-06-26T18:07:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:07:24","slug":"pathfinder-3-distractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akaflieg.nl\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/pathfinder-3-distractions\/","title":{"rendered":"Pathfinder 3: distractions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s been a long time since I posted. Too long. This doesn&#8217;t mean that I haven&#8217;t done anything or haven&#8217;t thought about the Pathfinder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It means other things kept getting in the way. I guess progress isn&#8217;t as linear as I thought it would be&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Discus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quite unexpectedly, I bought myself a glider. I was looking for a very specific glider, and expected one to become available at the end of 2025. Things went unexpectedly different and the glider became for sale earlier. I jumped on the occasion and bought the glider: a beautiful Discus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is some work to be done after buying a glider: transferring ownership, having the trailer checked, looking at some of the basics: batteries, parachute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The goal for this glider has always been two-fold: fly cross country <strong>and<\/strong> make it a platform for experiments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Flying<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right after I got the Discus, we had the best spring in a long time, so many of my weekends were used up by&#8230; flying! Last year was much more &#8220;productive&#8221; for projects, due to all the rain. I felt I had some catching up to do this year and flew as much as I could. I started to fly cross country on the Discus, and I joined a competition for a day with my clubs Duo Discus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Outlook<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While I&#8217;ve not had time to work on the Pathfinder in a dedicated way, I did spend some time on it. Also, the competition I flew gave me some insights.  As the cross-country season is over it&#8217;s peak, I am carving out some time to work on the math side of things. To be continued&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time since I posted. Too long. This doesn&#8217;t mean that I haven&#8217;t done anything or haven&#8217;t thought about the Pathfinder. It means other things kept getting in the way. I guess progress isn&#8217;t as linear as I thought it would be&#8230;. Discus Quite unexpectedly, I bought myself a glider. I was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/akaflieg.nl\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/pathfinder-3-distractions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pathfinder 3: distractions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/akaflieg.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250505-WA0017-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akaflieg.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akaflieg.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akaflieg.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akaflieg.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akaflieg.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/akaflieg.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101,"href":"https:\/\/akaflieg.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions\/1101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akaflieg.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akaflieg.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akaflieg.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akaflieg.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}