{"id":27262,"date":"2026-05-20T08:26:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aeroclub.ch\/?p=27262"},"modified":"2026-05-20T08:26:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:26:51","slug":"abschied-von-fluglehrer-legende-tony-birrer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aeroclub.ch\/en\/abschied-von-fluglehrer-legende-tony-birrer\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to flight instructor legend Tony Birrer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He spent almost 35,000 hours in the air and accompanied over 500 pilots from their first flying lesson to their final exam: Tony Birrer was already a legend during his lifetime. Now the long-time AeCS member has left us forever, as his family announced.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Birrer ran his own flight school in Grenchen until 2020, having previously worked as a flight instructor in Berom\u00fcnster, Triengen and at EuroAirport Basel. His work as an instructor and flight instructor was far more than just a job; it was a vocation and a passion that he was able to pass on to countless flight students.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.hoststar.ch\/s\/jHE6PACjFPR58W5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AeroRevue Issue 1\/23<\/a> a portrait of Tony Birrer was published.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He has spent almost 35,000 hours in the air and has trained over 500 pilots from their very first flying lesson.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"no_sidebar_content_centered","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"no_sidebar","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aktuell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aeroclub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aeroclub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aeroclub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aeroclub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aeroclub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aeroclub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aeroclub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aeroclub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aeroclub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aeroclub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}