Greg Brown: Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet

Make Way for Grandparents! (updated)

Text or Voicemail Greg! Flying Miles and Miles of Texas... Among our most rewarding aviator missions is applying our piloting skills to transport ourselves and loved on

Get Your Kicks Flying Route 66!

Text or Voicemail Greg! This year marks the Centennial of legendary highway US Route 66, affectionately known as America’s Mother Road. Officially established on Novembe

Nabbed!

Text or Voicemail Greg! Perils of a Dream Pilot Job "When the police first came up I asked 'em 2-3 times, ‘you’re joking, right?’ But about the time they put me in

In Search of Lost Time

Text or Voicemail Greg! The Magic of Being a Pilot! Where the heck is my watch? I wondered, upon checking my wrist for the current time. Jean and I were dining with avi

Best Landing Anyone Ever Made

Text or Voicemail Greg! I recently had occasion to remember my dad on what would’ve been his 100th birthday. He was a cool guy with an impressive aviation background who

Lessons & Landmarks

Text or Voicemail Greg! Lessons & Landmarks; Cross Country Odyssey During the ATC Strike During the recent longest ever US government shutdown, airline traffic was rest

Best "1st Flying Lesson" Ever!

Text or Voicemail Greg!  Any pilot will tell you that learning to fly an airplane is a challenging endeavor. So when you fly with someone who demonstrates a natural knac

Runaway Autopilot!

Text or Voicemail Greg! Runaway Autopilot! (Misadventures of a Corporate Pilot) Happily I've experienced only a handful of scares over decades of piloting. But thi

Kentucky Belle

Text or Voicemail Greg! "This might as well be Oz,"  I thought, upon clearing the clouds approaching Paducah, Kentucky. I wouldn’t have been surprised to experience supe

Bowling Alley Hot Dogs

Text or Voicemail Greg! Flight instructing offers some of the most rewarding flying there is. We experience the joy of fulfilling our students’ dreams of flight, become

Flying Saucer!

Text or Voicemail Greg! There's been lots of news lately about possible extraterrestrial visits from other planets, other galaxies. And whether the government has b

The Day GPS Went Away!

Text or Voicemail Greg! How many pilots have seriously considered the safety implications of unexpectedly losing GPS navigation in flight? Well it happened to us, in c

"Waterbeds by the 1/2 Hour"

Text or Voicemail Greg! Grab your logbook, 'cause it's time for one of my wackiest flying adventures ever! So climb into my Flying Carpet, buckle up your seatb

Perils of an Off-Airport Takeoff!

Text or Voicemail Greg! Cowboy Flying Lesson! Perils of an Off-Airport Takeoff You may remember meeting my buddy Baldy in previous Flying Carpet Podcasts, Flight #2, "

Time Travel

Text or Voicemail Greg! 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

Eclipse!

Text or Voicemail Greg! 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

iPads, Icing, & Restricted Airspace!

Text or Voicemail Greg! 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

Cowpunchers Reunion: Rough Flight Home

Text or Voicemail Greg! 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 invi

Bad Omen

Text or Voicemail Greg! There are many dimensions to piloting adventure: some are scary, most are educational, but all are memorable! Support the show Contact Greg wi

Lobe Plays Sedona; Skies Filled with Music

Text or Voicemail Greg! “Lobe Plays Sedona; Skies filled with music.”  Along with cockpit thrills and challenges, plenty of piloting adventure arises from where flying