Latest Flying stories Podcast Episodes
Time Travel
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - April 15, 2024 21:00 - 37 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* One thing I love about flying is that there are so many dimensions to it. It might be as simple as going from point a to point B... For a meeting... Or a "hundred-dollar hamburger." But sometimes piloting takes you mystically and magically to fa...
Eclipse!
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - March 25, 2024 01:00 - 24 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* As I record this, we’re just two weeks away from the 2024 total solar eclipse that will come up through Mexico and cross much of the Midwest and eastern United States. I suspect that many of you plan on flying to see this eclipse, but if you’re ...
iPads, Icing, & Restricted Airspace!
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - December 16, 2023 23:00 - 28 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* One thing I’ve learned over many years of piloting is that rarely can we plan a flight, take off, and then not need to worry about anything until we reach our destination. More often than not, circumstances arise before takeoff and en route that ...
Cowpunchers Reunion: Rough Flight Home
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - October 15, 2023 18:00 - 16 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* You may remember meeting my cowboy buddy "Baldy" way back in Flying Carpet Podcast Flight #2, “Cowboy Pilot,” in which Jean and I were first invited to the annual "Arizona Cowpuncher’s Reunion." If you don’t remember that episode, or haven’t heard...
Bad Omen
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - July 10, 2023 02:00 - 15 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* There are many dimensions to piloting adventure: some are scary, most are educational, but all are memorable! Support the Show. https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ https://www.facebook.com/GregBrownFlyingCarpet/ https://www.instagram.com...
Lobe Plays Sedona; Skies Filled with Music
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - March 19, 2023 01:00 - 15 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* “Lobe Plays Sedona; Skies filled with music.” Along with cockpit thrills and challenges, plenty of piloting adventure arises from where flying can deliver us, both physically and spiritually. That’s what today’s episode is about. Support the S...
Vertigo!
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - December 10, 2022 23:00 - 15 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* Some Lessons a Pilot Never Forgets "So this must be vertigo." I thought. Nausea circled my gut like the snowflakes orbiting my propeller. I peered out the windshield for landmarks, but snow obscured all but a tiny spot of ground beneath me, even...
Red Sports Car for a Day
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - November 18, 2022 20:00 - 14 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* Ride along on Greg's youthful adventures in airplanes and automobiles! Support the Show. https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ https://www.facebook.com/GregBrownFlyingCarpet/ https://www.instagram.com/gregbrownflyingcarpet/
Fifty Years Aloft
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - October 06, 2022 01:00 - 22 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* I was recently awarded the FAA’s Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award, for 50 years of safe piloting. It’s mind-boggling to consider how short the history of aviation is, that I should have personally flown for over 40% of the entire history of po...
Talking Spirits
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - August 17, 2022 00:00 - 15 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* Piloting is a sophisticated activity that requires a good deal of training, hand-eye coordination, planning, and application of judgment. But today’s episode focuses more on spiritual aspects of flying--that is, why we do it, rather than how we d...
Captain Midnight
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - April 17, 2022 01:00 - 15 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* As you’ve likely heard, the final Learjet was recently delivered following almost 60 years of production. I was a kid when the Lear 23 was first introduced in 1964. Although a few other corporate jets were flying by then, most companies still mo...
Backstory: Flight Instructor Hall of Fame
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - April 05, 2022 00:00 - 14 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* Every aviator develops mutually rewarding relationships with the flight instructors delivering his or her wings. Well, here’s the backstory of one of those relationships, that over 22 years led to the Flight Instructor Hall of Fame. It’s a story...
Share Your Gift of Flight! (updated)
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - October 31, 2021 20:00 - 47 minutesTips and tricks for introducing family and friends to general aviation flying, including some hysterical stories about how NOT to do it! Learn how to treat family and friends to their critical first airplane rides, to ensure that they enjoy themselves and want to fly with you again. Heads up ...
Share Your Gift of Flight!
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - October 31, 2021 20:00 - 46 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* Tips and tricks for introducing family and friends to general aviation flying, including some hysterical stories about how NOT to do it! Learn how to treat family and friends to their critical first airplane rides, to ensure that they enjoy thems...
Pilgrimage to Oshkosh!
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - July 27, 2021 19:00 - 22 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* Everyone knows this is Oshkosh AirVenture Fly-in week, right? Well, grab your logbook, 'cause it's time for "Pilgrimage to Oshkosh," Greg Brown's Flying Carpet Podcast #18. Whether you're at AirVenture now or just wish you were, I promise you c...
"Parlez-vous Anglais?"
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - June 21, 2021 00:00 - 19 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* Ever wonder what it would be like, flying yourself into a foreign country where pilot communications are transmitted in an unknown-to-you language? Well, here's your opportunity to find out! This episode marks fifty years of a treasured friendsh...
Parlez-vous Anglais?
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - June 21, 2021 00:00 - 20 minutesEver wonder what it would be like, flying yourself into a foreign country where pilot communications are transmitted in an unknown-to-you language? Well, here's your opportunity to find out! This episode marks fifty years of a treasured friendship, arising under unusual circumstances from a lo...
World War I in the Air!
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - May 18, 2021 17:00 - 31 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* Ever wonder what it was like to fly primitive airplanes into battle in World War I? Well, here’s your opportunity to find out! “The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul,” ⸺Sir Walter Raleigh, The War in the Air, 1922 (Mu...
Birthday Flowers
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - March 13, 2021 17:00 - 15 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* When celebrating birthdays with zeros in them, flowers alone won’t do it. So when Jean marked a new decade I sought somewhere special we could fly to celebrate. “But it seems weird celebrating a big birthday in Death Valley,” she said... Check ...
Realm of the Ancients
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - February 07, 2021 03:00 - 15 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* Experience archaeology by Flying Carpet: Earning your wings is more than piloting an airplane; it's about where flying can take you! Don't miss this episode's photos at GregBrownFlyingCarpet.com ! (Music by Hannis Brown) Support the Show. http...
Mayhem Beneath Our Wings
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - January 07, 2021 23:00 - 12 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* “Look!” said my wife with horror. “There’s been a terrible crash!” Glancing downward, there was just time for me to glimpse carnage on Highway 202, the Red Mountain Freeway east of Phoenix. A few hundred feet beneath us, flames and blackened vehic...
Ghost of Christmas Flights Past
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - December 24, 2020 19:00 - 7 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* Here's an audio holiday card to you and your family, direct from the cockpit of the Flying Carpet! It's been a mighty tough year, between pandemic, politics, and world problems, so from our family to yours, we hope this little audio card will bri...
Inches of Runway
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - December 19, 2020 16:00 - 17 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* Grab your logbook, ‘cause it’s time for Flying Carpet Podcast Flight #12, “Inches of Runway!” Because wind is invisible, it rarely seems as threatening as other weather when you’re flight planning, especially under clear skies. But as every pilo...
Vulture's Prey
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - November 29, 2020 17:00 - 17 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* The saga of the Lobe Band Bus, rescued by Flying Carpet. "You could always circle it on the way back, like a vulture!" See photos at the episode website! Music by Hannis Brown. Support the Show. https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ htt...
Long Journey North
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - November 12, 2020 20:00 - 42 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* Grab your logbook, ‘cause it’s time for Flying Carpet Podcast Flight #10, “Long Journey North.” Jean and I are often asked, “Is there one aerial journey that stands out above the rest, in all your decades of flying?” Well yes there is, and this ...
Flying the Mists of Time
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - October 25, 2020 00:00 - 14 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* Ever heard of anyone sowing terror from a tiny 2-seat Cessna 150 trainer? Well, grab your logbook ‘cause it’s time for Flying Carpet Podcast Flight #9, “Flying the Mists of Time,” about a little-known aviation event leading up to one of the US's m...
Painted into a Corner
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - October 09, 2020 00:00 - 14 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* Grab your logbook ‘cause it’s time for Greg Brown's Flying Carpet Podcast Flight #8, “Painted into a Corner,” about a scary flight, facing down thunderstorms in dark of night! Support the Show. https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ https:/...
Snipe Hunt!
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - September 27, 2020 00:00 - 13 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* Grab your logbook, ‘cause it’s time for Flying Carpet Podcast Flight #7, “Snipe Hunt!” Those who savor old cars, grass strips, and the aroma of rotisserie chicken, will love this episode. And don't miss the photos at GregBrownFlyingCarpet.com, inc...
Wildfire! How an Airport Helped Save a Town
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - September 07, 2020 23:00 - 13 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* This account of how one airport helped save a town from wildfires, is presented as a tribute to the countless Wildland Firefighters, in the air and on the ground, and the teams and airports supporting them, currently battling record wildfires acro...
Ode to Night Currency
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - August 21, 2020 23:00 - 15 minutes*Text Greg your comments! Please name episode.* Even after decades of piloting, night landings remain tough, beautiful, a little scary, and immensely rewarding. But just 30 minutes aloft displace all the preflight fears and apprehensions with just a single thought: CAN YOU BELIEVE WE GET TO DO ...
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