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Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet

Greg Brown, “the story-teller-poet-laureate of aviation”

39 episodes

1 week ago

Runaway Autopilot! (Misadventures of a Corporate Pilot) Happily I've experienced only a handful of scares over decades of piloting. But this one was a biggie! So climb aboard my Flying Carpet, buckle up your seatbelt, and prepare for takeoff on today's episode, "Runaway Autopilot!" Support the show Contact Greg with your comments and suggestions! GregBrownFlyingCarpet.com (Find all of Greg's links here.) Greg Brown's Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet Podcast Greg's Book, Flying C...

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Runaway Autopilot! (Misadventures of a Corporate Pilot) Happily I've experienced only a handful of scares over decades of piloting. But this one was a biggie! So climb aboard my Flying Carpet, buckle up your seatbelt, and prepare for takeoff on today's episode, "Runaway Autopilot!" Support the show Contact Greg with your comments and suggestions! GregBrownFlyingCarpet.com (Find all of Greg's links here.) Greg Brown's Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet Podcast Greg's Book, Flying C...

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Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet

*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments!There's been lots of news lately about possible extraterrestrial visits from other planets, other galaxies. And whether the government has been covering it up. In particular, many reports have revealed sightings from airplane cockpits.So when a friend messaged the other day asking whether I’d ever experienced UFOs or extraterrestrials in the course of flight, I was reminded of an incident Jean and I experienced years ago in the Flying Carpet. You might call ...

3 months ago

12 minutes

Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet

The Day GPS Went Away!

*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments!How many pilots have seriously considered the safety implications of unexpectedly losing GPS navigation in flight? Well it happened to us, in clouds over remote and rugged terrain, and as you'll hear, the risks are thought-provoking at best, and potentially deadly without forethought, positional awareness, and preparation...This episode could save your life!Greg Support the showhttps://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/https://www.facebook.com/GregBrown...

6 months ago

24 minutes

Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet

"Waterbeds by the 1/2 Hour"

*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 episode] - while driving and LAUGHED Out Loud! OMG, I don’t know [which part] was funnier…😂 It’s a great reminder to all of us that there is so much more adventure as GA pilots beyond the requirements. And you c...

9 months ago

15 minutes

Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet

Perils of an Off-Airport Takeoff!

*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments!Cowboy Flying Lesson! Perils of an Off-Airport TakeoffYou 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 emergency, and then what followed. The precautionary landing went well enough, but not so the takeoff. This episode you don't want to miss!! Support the showhttps://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/https:...

10 months ago

16 minutes

Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet

*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—spiritually or across time. And that's what this story is about. So climb into my Flying Carpet, buckle up your seatbelts and prepare to takeoff on today's adventure, "Time Travel."Greg* Currently te...

11 months ago

37 minutes

Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet

*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 probably should be. Plenty of people have experienced a partial solar eclipse, and a few have experienced an annular solar eclipse.But if you’ve never experienced a total solar eclipse, it’s so much more...

1 year ago

24 minutes

Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet

iPads, Icing, & Restricted Airspace!

*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 planning, strategy, and tactics to get us safely where we’re going . A big part of this, too, is being prepared to land at any point… To turn around. To land at an inconvenient airport that might even be unatt...

1 year ago

28 minutes

Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet

Cowpunchers Reunion: Rough Flight Home

*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 might want to get to know Baldy via that episode before starting this one.Regardless, I predict you’ll get a kick joining our flying adventure to attend a unique “working cowboys” rodeo, and experiencing ou...

1 year ago

16 minutes

Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet

*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 showhttps://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/https://www.facebook.com/GregBrownFlyingCarpet/https://www.instagram.com/gregbrownflyingcarpet/

1 year ago

15 minutes

Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet

Lobe Plays Sedona; Skies Filled with Music

*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 showhttps://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/https://www.facebook.com/GregBrownFlyingCarpet/https://www.instagram.com/gregbrownflyingcarpet/

2 years ago

15 minutes

Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet

*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 altitude of only a thousand feet. To make matters worse, my navigational radio had obviously failed. How could I possibly have drifted so far off course as it suggested, on a flight of only 40 miles?&...

2 years ago

15 minutes

Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet

Red Sports Car for a Day

*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments!Ride along on Greg's youthful adventures in airplanes and automobiles! Support the showhttps://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/https://www.facebook.com/GregBrownFlyingCarpet/https://www.instagram.com/gregbrownflyingcarpet/

2 years ago

14 minutes

Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet

Fifty Years Aloft

*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! In this episode I reflect on how general aviation flying has changed since I took to the skies in 1972. What’s more, today’s story kicks off a whole series of future episodes sharing many more ...

2 years ago

22 minutes

Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet

Talking Spirits

*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's topped off by a crazy destination. This story is one of my personal favorites, and I hope you’ll enjoy it.Okay, everyone, hop aboard my Flying Carpet, snug up your seatbelts, and prepare for takeo...

2 years ago

15 minutes

Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet

Captain Midnight

*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 in relatively slow, unpressurized piston airplanes, many of them repurposed WWII-era bombers and freighters. The Lear was so sleek, sexy, and fast in comparison that it seemingly arrived from th...

2 years ago

15 minutes

Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet

Backstory: Flight Instructor Hall of Fame

*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 will appreciate.Read my 1999 NAFI Mentor column referenced in the Podcast. Support the showhttps://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/https://www.facebook.com/GregBrownFlyingCarpet/https://www.instag...

3 years ago

14 minutes

Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet

Share Your Gift of Flight!

*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 want to fly with you again. Heads up that this is a live recording of a talk given several years ago, meaning audio quality is somewhat variable. But if you’ll stick with me I promise some great tips, a...

3 years ago

46 minutes

Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet

Pilgrimage to Oshkosh!

*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 time, some laughs, and a fresh perspective!So hop in the Flying Carpet with me, and we’ll go check it out!GregPS: If you enjoy this podcast, please share with friends! Support the showhttps://gr...

3 years ago

22 minutes

Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet

"Parlez-vous Anglais?"

*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 under unusual circumstances from a long-ago foreign adventure, and continued over the years through Flying Carpet adventures like this one! Support the showhttps://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/h...

3 years ago

19 minutes

Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet

World War I in the Air!

*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 Hannis Brown) Support the showhttps://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/https://www.facebook.com/GregBrownFlyingCarpet/https://www.instagram.com/gregbrownflyingcarpet/

3 years ago

31 minutes