{"id":102,"date":"2017-08-23T21:11:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T01:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unexplodedminds.com\/?p=102"},"modified":"2021-10-18T21:53:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T01:53:34","slug":"the-great-american-eclipse-2017-at-west-carolina-regional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skyfun.space\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"The Great American Eclipse 2017 at West Carolina Regional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a long day of flying but worth it. \u00a0About three and a half hours there and another three and a half back over mostly mountains and some weaving around clouds to stay VFR but we made it there in time for the eclipse and were back home just before dark. \u00a0We stopped at Mountain Empire to refuel which wasn&#8217;t really necessary. \u00a0We made it from West Carolina Regional back home with well over an hour of fuel to spare on the way back flying mostly direct. \u00a0The eclipse was well worth seeing in complete totality. \u00a0Others who only saw the partial eclipse were very underwhelmed. \u00a0Even at 98% coverage there is still enough light for it to just get a bit darker and not be able to see the halo. \u00a0At totality it really is impressive and you are able to see the eclipse for a couple minutes without eye protection. \u00a0The trip was worth it even if the airports did overcharge for fuel.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Great American Eclipse 2017 at West Carolina Regional Airport\" width=\"586\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cH7JTyhjiug?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a long day of flying but worth it. \u00a0About three and a half hours there and another three and a half back over mostly mountains and some weaving around clouds to stay VFR but we made it there in time for the eclipse and were back home just before dark. \u00a0We stopped at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10,11,8,9,7],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","tag-10","tag-airport","tag-american","tag-eclipse","tag-great"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7BBwh-1E","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyfun.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyfun.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyfun.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyfun.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyfun.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skyfun.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/skyfun.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyfun.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyfun.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyfun.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}