{"id":1499,"date":"2014-04-24T10:56:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T09:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2014-04-24T11:33:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T10:33:03","slug":"a330-300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/flying\/a330-300","title":{"rendered":"A330-300: My 85th Type"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- default-view.php -->\n<div\n\tclass=\"ngg-galleryoverview default-view\n\t ngg-ajax-pagination-none\t\"\n\tid=\"ngg-gallery-4987bce3d1b63bf951a985abbbd69a7f-1\"\n\tdata-gallery-id=\"1\">\n\n\t\t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-0\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tngg-3-columns\t\t\t\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n\t\t\t<a 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It&#8217;s lighter on the controls than the A340, particularly the A340-600. The rate of climb is impressive after take-off, not so impressive at top-of-climb.<\/p>\n\n<p>Now I have to fly it exclusively for 50 hours &#8211; after that I&#8217;ll be flying the A330 and A340 as the roster requires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Show slideshow] Just completed my checkout on the A330-300. It&#8217;s lighter on the controls than the A340, particularly the A340-600. The rate of climb is impressive after take-off, not so impressive at top-of-climb. Now I have to fly it exclusively for 50 hours &#8211; after that I&#8217;ll be flying the A330 and A340 as the &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/flying\/a330-300\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A330-300: My 85th Type&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}