{"id":17079,"date":"2020-12-07T22:05:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T22:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=17079"},"modified":"2020-12-07T22:06:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T22:06:01","slug":"aopas-air-safety-institute-releases-new-real-pilot-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/maryland\/aopas-air-safety-institute-releases-new-real-pilot-story\/%20","title":{"rendered":"AOPA\u2019S Air Safety Institute Releases New Real Pilot Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) Air Safety\nInstitute (ASI) released a new episode in its popular Real Pilot Story video\nseries about a transatlantic ferry flight from Wichita, Kansas, to Paris,\nFrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Real Pilot Story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aopa.org\/training-and-safety\/online-learning\/real-pilot-stories\/pressure-over-the-atlantic\">Pressure Over the Atlantic<\/a>, the Air Safety Institute talks with international ferry pilot Kerry McCauley about his harrowing experience during a 1994 single-pilot night flight in a Bonanza over the North Atlantic. McCauley, who now has more than 30 years of experience with more than 100 ocean crossings logged, recounts what went wrong as he discovered a serious problem transferring fuel from the ferry tank and how he overcame the odds of making it to his destination safely.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In ASI\u2019s Real Pilot Story series, pilots share their\nencounter with a dilemma so others can benefit\u2014while comfortably on the\nground\u2014from lessons learned the hard way in flight,&#8221; said AOPA Air Safety\nInstitute Senior Director Paul Deres. &#8220;We applaud Kerry McCauley for\nkeeping a cool head in the face of a life-threatening situation and enduring a\ngrueling eight-hour ordeal, and we thank him for sharing his story with the\ngeneral aviation community to help make us all safer pilots.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch Real Pilot Story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aopa.org\/training-and-safety\/online-learning\/real-pilot-stories\/Pressure-Over-the-Atlantic \">Pressure Over the Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) Air Safety Institute (ASI) released a new episode in its popular Real Pilot Story video series about a transatlantic ferry flight from Wichita, Kansas, to Paris, France. In Real Pilot Story: Pressure Over the Atlantic, the Air Safety Institute talks with international ferry pilot Kerry McCauley about his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","category-maryland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/AOPA-Video-Series-Kerry.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17081,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17079\/revisions\/17081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}