Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet (Greg Brown, “the story-teller-poet-laureate of aviation”)
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| 05 Apr 2022 | Backstory: Flight Instructor Hall of Fame | 00:14:00 | |
*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! Every aviator develops mutually rewarding relationships with the flight instructors delivering his or her wings. https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 17 Apr 2022 | Captain Midnight | 00:15:43 | |
*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. Today’s episode is a tribute to the Learjet via "Captain Midnight," one of the model’s early captains and the most dashing pilot I've ever met, who along the way inspired me and other enthusiastic kids to earn their wings in his footsteps. https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 17 Aug 2022 | Talking Spirits | 00:15:40 | |
*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. https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 06 Oct 2022 | Fifty Years Aloft | 00:22:48 | |
*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! I was recently awarded the FAA’s Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award, for 50 years of safe piloting. 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 cockpit adventures from those five decades. Something to look forward to! Okay, everyone, hop aboard my Flying Carpet, snug up your seatbelts, and prepare for takeoff on today’s adventure, “Fifty Years Aloft!” Greg PS: If you enjoy this podcast, please share with friends, and rate and review it on your favorite podcast directory! https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 18 Nov 2022 | Red Sports Car for a Day | 00:14:45 | |
*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! Ride along on Greg's youthful adventures in airplanes and automobiles! https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 10 Dec 2022 | Vertigo! | 00:15:36 | |
*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! Some Lessons a Pilot Never Forgets https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 19 Mar 2023 | Lobe Plays Sedona; Skies Filled with Music | 00:15:44 | |
*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! “Lobe Plays Sedona; Skies filled with music.” https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 10 Jul 2023 | Bad Omen | 00:15:55 | |
*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! There are many dimensions to piloting adventure: some are scary, most are educational, but all are memorable! https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 15 Oct 2023 | Cowpunchers Reunion: Rough Flight Home | 00:16:55 | |
*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 our piloting travails flying there and returning. Okay, everyone, hop aboard my Flying Carpet, snug up your seatbelts, and prepare for takeoff on today’s adventure, “Cowpunchers Reunion: Rough Flight Home.” Greg https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 16 Dec 2023 | iPads, Icing, & Restricted Airspace! | 00:28:15 | |
*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 unattended. But if we’re not willing and able to make smart decisions “on the fly,” we cannot safely fly around in potentially marginal weather. https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 25 Mar 2024 | Eclipse! | 00:24:16 | |
*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. https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 15 Apr 2024 | Time Travel | 00:37:02 | |
*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. Greg https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 24 May 2024 | Perils of an Off-Airport Takeoff! | 00:16:37 | |
*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! Cowboy Flying Lesson! This episode you don't want to miss!! https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 16 Jun 2024 | "Waterbeds by the 1/2 Hour" | 00:15:27 | |
*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! Grab your logbook, 'cause it's time for one of my wackiest flying adventures ever! Greg https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 02 Oct 2024 | The Day GPS Went Away! | 00:24:50 | |
*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! How many pilots have seriously considered the safety implications of unexpectedly losing GPS navigation in flight? This episode could save your life! https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 15 Dec 2024 | Flying Saucer! | 00:12:34 | |
*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 it “Flying Carpet Meets Flying Saucer.” So climb into the Flying Carpet. Buckle up your seat belts. And prepare for takeoff on Flying Carpet Podcast Flight #35. “Flying Saucer!” Greg https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 03 Apr 2025 | Bowling Alley Hot Dogs | 00:18:54 | |
*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! Flight instructing offers some of the most rewarding flying there is. We experience the joy of fulfilling our students’ dreams of flight, become better pilots ourselves in the process, and develop lifelong friendships with many of those we teach. But among hours and hours of routine teaching and flying, there are occasional hard lessons, too, most often unanticipated. And those hard lessons are generally even more eye-opening and profound for us instructors than for our students. Above all, we learn that while maintaining a relaxed cockpit learning environment, we must never become complacent. Okay, everyone, hop aboard my Flying Carpet, buckle into the pilot’s seat, and prepare for takeoff on Flight Number 36, “Bowling Alley Hot Dogs.” https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 23 Jun 2020 | New Beginnings; Return to Flight | 00:13:58 | |
*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us aviators have been sitting around the past many months just wishing we were in the air, rather than launching skyward where we'd much prefer to be. https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 11 Jul 2020 | Cowboy Pilot | 00:16:38 | |
*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! "I much prefer aircraft accidents to being bucked by a horse!" Meet Greg's colorful cowboy-pilot buddy, Baldy, in the northern Arizona ranching town of Seligman. Good times guaranteed! (See associated photos at GregBrownFlyingCarpet.com) https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 23 Jul 2020 | Old Pals and N-Numbers | 00:13:56 | |
*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! Like fond memories of long-ago lovers, beloved airplanes resurface occasionally from quiet corners of a pilot’s mind. We hear the last three digits of some familiar N-number and are flooded with reminiscences. https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 08 Aug 2020 | Sky King & the Old Apache | 00:16:56 | |
*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! “The roaring powerplant and squealing tires soon brought my instructor scrambling from the office.” https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 21 Aug 2020 | Ode to Night Currency | 00:15:08 | |
*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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 THIS?! https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 07 Sep 2020 | Wildfire! How an Airport Helped Save a Town | 00:13:36 | |
*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! 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 across North America and the world. https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 27 Sep 2020 | Snipe Hunt! | 00:13:11 | |
*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 wolf in sheep's clothing!" https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 09 Oct 2020 | Painted into a Corner | 00:14:14 | |
*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! https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 25 Oct 2020 | Flying the Mists of Time | 00:14:10 | |
*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 terrorist acts. https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 12 Nov 2020 | Long Journey North | 00:42:25 | |
*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 extended Flying Carpet trek from Arizona to Northern Minnesota, to attend a funeral. There’s no single event that made it memorable, but rather a long cross-the-country adventure filled with all sorts of challenging and wacky and beautiful and crazy experiences, and yes a few scary ones, all glued together into one big journey. https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 29 Nov 2020 | Vulture's Prey | 00:17:23 | |
*FAN MAIL: Text Greg your comments! The saga of the Lobe Band Bus, rescued by Flying Carpet. https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 19 Dec 2020 | Inches of Runway | 00:17:20 | |
*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, wind is real; like other weather features it can be helpful or hazardous. Consider, for example, a 65-knot (75mph) headwind…! https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 24 Dec 2020 | Ghost of Christmas Flights Past | 00:07:57 | |
*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! https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 07 Jan 2021 | Mayhem Beneath Our Wings | 00:12:15 | |
*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 the roadway as we crossed low on final approach to land at Falcon Field. https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 07 Feb 2021 | Realm of the Ancients | 00:15:33 | |
*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! https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 13 Mar 2021 | Birthday Flowers | 00:15:20 | |
*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... https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 18 May 2021 | World War I in the Air! | 00:31:36 | |
*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! https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 21 Jun 2021 | "Parlez-vous Anglais?" | 00:19:44 | |
*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! https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 27 Jul 2021 | Pilgrimage to Oshkosh! | 00:22:51 | |
*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!
https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||
| 31 Oct 2021 | Share Your Gift of Flight! | 00:46:30 | |
*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! 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, along with some fun stories pilots at every experience level will appreciate. Okay, everyone, hop aboard my Flying Carpet, snug up your seatbelts, and prepare for takeoff on today’s adventure, “Share your Gift of Flight!” https://gregbrownflyingcarpet.com/podcast/ | |||