Latest Instrument flying Podcast Episodes
"Waterbeds by the 1/2 Hour"
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - June 16, 2024 00:00 - 15 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! Grab your logbook, 'cause it's time for one of my wackiest flying adventures ever! So climb into my Flying Carpet, buckle up your seatbelts and prepare to take off on today’s episode, “Waterbeds by the 1/2 Hour!” Greg "I just finished listening to [this epi...
Perils of an Off-Airport Takeoff!
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - May 24, 2024 17:00 - 16 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! Cowboy Flying Lesson! Perils of an Off-Airport Takeoff You may remember meeting my buddy Baldy in previous Flying Carpet Podcasts, Flight #2, "Cowboy Pilot," and Flight #29, "Cowpuncher's Reunion." Well here's what happened when he suffered an inflight emer...
Time Travel
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - April 15, 2024 21:00 - 37 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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 faraway places...
Eclipse!
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - March 25, 2024 01:00 - 24 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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 not, you pro...
iPads, Icing, & Restricted Airspace!
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - December 16, 2023 23:00 - 28 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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 require plan...
Cowpunchers Reunion: Rough Flight Home
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - October 15, 2023 18:00 - 16 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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 it, you mig...
Bad Omen
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - July 10, 2023 02:00 - 15 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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/gregbrownfl...
Lobe Plays Sedona; Skies Filled with Music
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - March 19, 2023 01:00 - 15 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! “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 Show. https:...
Vertigo!
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - December 10, 2022 23:00 - 15 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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 at an altit...
Red Sports Car for a Day
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - November 18, 2022 20:00 - 14 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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 powered flight...
Talking Spirits
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - August 17, 2022 00:00 - 15 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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 do it, and it...
Captain Midnight
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - April 17, 2022 01:00 - 15 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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 motored around...
Backstory: Flight Instructor Hall of Fame
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - April 05, 2022 00:00 - 14 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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 every pilot...
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*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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 themselves and wa...
Pilgrimage to Oshkosh!
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - July 27, 2021 19:00 - 22 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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 cross-country...
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...
"Parlez-vous Anglais?"
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - June 21, 2021 00:00 - 19 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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 friendship, arising ...
World War I in the Air!
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - May 18, 2021 17:00 - 31 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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 (Music by Hanni...
Birthday Flowers
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - March 13, 2021 17:00 - 15 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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 out the phot...
Realm of the Ancients
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - February 07, 2021 03:00 - 15 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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. https://gregbrow...
Mayhem Beneath Our Wings
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - January 07, 2021 23:00 - 12 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! “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 vehicles littered...
Ghost of Christmas Flights Past
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - December 24, 2020 19:00 - 7 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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 brighten your h...
Inches of Runway
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - December 19, 2020 16:00 - 17 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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 pilot learns, wi...
Vulture's Prey
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - November 29, 2020 17:00 - 17 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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/ https://www.fac...
Long Journey North
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - November 12, 2020 20:00 - 42 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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 is it -- an ...
Flying the Mists of Time
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - October 25, 2020 00:00 - 14 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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 most heinous ...
Painted into a Corner
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - October 09, 2020 00:00 - 14 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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://www.faceboo...
Snipe Hunt!
Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet - September 27, 2020 00:00 - 13 minutes*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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, including "the ...
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