{"id":1312,"date":"2014-03-09T22:19:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T20:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ulrichard.ch\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2014-03-09T22:19:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T20:19:55","slug":"celebrating-2000-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/?p=1312","title":{"rendered":"celebrating 2&#8217;000 flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I didn&#8217;t even realize that I completed my two thousand&#8217;th flight. Only when I updated <a href=\"http:\/\/flugbuch2.ulrichard.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my flight log book<\/a>, I found out. I knew that I&#8217;m close, but that day I did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ffmGe2s5_dI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lots of short speed flights<\/a>, and one of them was the one.<br \/>\nFor the first one thousand flights I needed only four years. I celebrated the event with a couple of friends and a big bottle of Champaign. It was in March 2006 from the Zugerberg, and I top-landed after twenty minutes.<br \/>\nSince I don&#8217;t fly as much as back then, the second thousand flights took eight years. I held up the tradition with the Champaign, though. Not on the 2000th flight, which I missed. Instead, we celebrated the 2005th flight today, after I did three tandem flights for <a href=\"http:\/\/paragliding.ch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/rigi.ch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rigi<\/a>.<br \/>\nSo here is a small statistic:<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Gliders<\/td>\n<td>61<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>tandem flights<\/td>\n<td>265<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>speed flights<\/td>\n<td>145<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>flights with competition gliders<\/td>\n<td>540<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>countries<\/td>\n<td>20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>flying areas<\/td>\n<td>164<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I didn&#8217;t even realize that I completed my two thousand&#8217;th flight. Only when I updated my flight log book, I found out. I knew that I&#8217;m close, but that day I did lots of short speed flights, and one of them was the one. For the first one thousand flights I needed only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[168,216],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paragliding","category-uncategorized","tag-paragliding","tag-tandem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}