{"id":935,"date":"2012-05-24T17:23:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T17:23:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-05-24T17:23:27","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T17:23:27","slug":"k-state-salina-flight-team-lands-top-10-national-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/news\/k-state-salina-flight-team-lands-top-10-national-competition\/%20","title":{"rendered":"K-State Salina Flight Team Lands in Top 10 at National Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas State University Salina&#8217;s Flight Team placed seventh in the National Intercollegiate Flying Association&#8217;s National Safety And<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\\wp-content\\uploads\/KSU-small-300x197.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" \/> Flight Evaluation Conference, or SAFECON held in Salina, May 14-19 and hosted by the university. Twenty-eight teams from schools across the country participated.<\/p>\n<div>The Kansas State University Salina team won an invitation to the national competition by placing second in the association&#8217;s Region VI competition in October 2011.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The competition consists of 13 events, with members of the Kansas State University Salina Flight Team earning 10 individual placements in the top 20 in nine events: Certified Flight Instructor, Computer Accuracy, Ground Trainer, IFR Simulated Flight, Men&#8217;s Achievement Award, Power-off Landing, Short-field Landing and Simulated Comprehensive Aircraft Navigation. The team placed fifth overall in the flying events.<\/div>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n<div class=\"field_attachment\">\n<div><b>Attachment:<\/b><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"\/\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas State University Salina&#8217;s Flight Team placed seventh in the National Intercollegiate Flying Association&#8217;s National Safety And Flight Evaluation Conference, or SAFECON held in Salina, May 14-19 and hosted by the university. Twenty-eight teams from schools across the country participated. The Kansas State University Salina team won an invitation to the national competition by placing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kansas","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\\wp-content\\uploads\/KSU-small-300x197.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","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=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}