{"id":23697,"date":"2025-07-22T21:33:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=23697"},"modified":"2025-07-22T21:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:36:12","slug":"flight-back-to-malbec-from-la-rochelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/flight-back-to-malbec-from-la-rochelle\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight back to Malbec from la Rochelle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I flew up to la Rochelle on France&#8217;s Atlantic coast at the end of June to get my Savannah&#8217;s avionics recertified, not only was the visit unsuccessful because the testing station unfortunately damaged my transponder but I also therefore had to fly back to Malbec without it. That in itself wasn&#8217;t a big deal. What was more so was that by the time I took off the air temperature was over 35 degrees C and the turbulence I endured during the flight was brutal.<\/p>\n<p>Although I started it up, the GoPro in my cabin let me down yet again and the only video that was recorded was from outside on the starboard wing. The video I made from that footage is shown below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"505\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zOkcO6Zsez4?wmode=transparent&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showsearch=0&amp;rel=1&amp;theme=dark\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I flew up to la Rochelle on France&#8217;s Atlantic coast at the end of June to get my Savannah&#8217;s avionics recertified, not only was the visit unsuccessful because the testing station unfortunately damaged my transponder but I also therefore had to fly back to Malbec without it. That in itself wasn&#8217;t a big deal. &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/flight-back-to-malbec-from-la-rochelle\/\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23700,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23697\/revisions\/23700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}