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Desert Pilot Podcast

Commercial Airplane Land, Sea, and tailwheel Pilot from Arizona podcasting aviation flying adventures.
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Ep. 10 - Fathers day flight

This audio is my father, my son and I flying into Tucson international airport (KTUS) . Recorded in June 2019. _________ Find the podcast on most podcatchers like Apple Podcast , Stitcher , or Overcast Reach me on⇢ ✈︎ twitter: @DesertPilotTrev ✈︎ facebook: DesertPilot Podcast ✈︎ email: trevor@desertpilot.com...

Oct 01, 2019

Ep. 09 - Redington Pass into Tucson

This audio is my son and I departing San Manuel Airport (E77) flying clockwise around Mt. Lemmon through the Redington Pass into Tucson international airport (KTUS) . Recorded in May 2019. _________ Find the podcast on most podcatchers like Apple Podcast , Stitcher , or Overcast Reach me on⇢ ✈︎ twitter: @DesertPilotTrev ✈︎ facebook: DesertPilot Podcast ✈︎ email: trevor@desertpilot.com...

Sep 01, 2019

Ep. 08 - Flying to San Manuel Airport

This audio is my son and I departing Tucson international airport (KTUS) on a flight to do some landings at San Manuel Airport (E77) recorded in May 2019. _________ Find the podcast on most podcatchers like Apple Podcast , Stitcher , or Overcast Reach me on⇢ ✈︎ twitter: @DesertPilotTrev ✈︎ facebook: DesertPilot Podcast ✈︎ email: trevor@desertpilot.com...

Aug 01, 2019

Ep. 07 - Wright Flight Approach and tower part 2

This is more audio at Tucson international airport (KTUS) with Wright Flight recorded in April 2019 approach and landing. _________ Find the podcast on most podcatchers like Apple Podcast , Stitcher , or Overcast Reach me on⇢ ✈︎ twitter: @DesertPilotTrev ✈︎ facebook: DesertPilot Podcast ✈︎ email: trevor@desertpilot.com...

Jul 15, 2019

Ep. 06 - Wright Flight Approach and tower part 1

This is more audio at Tucson international airport (KTUS) with Wright Flight recorded in April 2019 approach and landing. _________ Find the podcast on most podcatchers like iTunes , Stitcher , or Overcast Reach me on⇢ ✈︎ twitter: @DesertPilotTrev ✈︎ facebook: DesertPilot Podcast ✈︎ email: trevor@desertpilot.com...

Jul 01, 2019

Ep. 05 - Taking off with Wright Flight

This is some audio of me taking off at Tucson international airport (KTUS) with Wright Flight recored in April 2019. ===== Find the podcast on most podcatchers like iTunes , Stitcher , or Overcast Reach me on: twitter: @DesertPilotTrev facebook: DesertPilot Podcast email: trevor@desertpilot.com...

Jun 21, 2019

Ep. 04 - Flying back throught Tucson Approach

This is the return from from Ep. 03 flying back from Benson (E95) to Ryan Airfield (KRYN) . Find the podcast on most podcatchers like iTunes , Stitcher , or Overcast ===== Reach me on twitter: @DesertPilotTrev On my facebook page that I don't keep up on: DesertPilot Podcast Or shoot me an email: trevor@desertpilot.com Intro music by Planet Orange Outro music by Duke Ellington...

Jul 15, 2018

Ep. 03 - Busted the Charlie

This is a flight from Ryan Airfield (KRYN) to Benson Airport (E95) and yes you can hear me bust the class charlie airspace around Tucson International (KTUS). And yes I filed a NASA report for the event. Find the podcast on most podcatchers like iTunes , Stitcher , or Overcast ===== Reach me on twitter: @DesertPilotTrev On my facebook page that I don't keep up on: DesertPilot Podcast Or shoot me an email: trevor@desertpilot.com Intro music by Planet Orange Outro music by Duke Ellington...

Jun 15, 2018

Ep. 02 - Cole's first flight part 1

This is part one of Cole's first flight in a general aviation aircraft. The uncut video of this is on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/LJ_0kfkyjaY ===== Reach me on twitter: @DesertPilotTrev On my facebook page that I don't keep up on: DesertPilot Podcast Or shoot me an email: trevor@desertpilot.com...

May 15, 2018

Ep. 01 - Basic Med, It's easy they said...

This is a basic med story. You'll laugh and you'll cry, actually you probably won't do any of that. ===== Reach me on twitter: @DesertPilotTrev On my facebook page that I don't keep up on: DesertPilot Podcast Or shoot me an email: trevor@desertpilot.com...

Apr 15, 2018

Road Rage in the Air

There has been lot of changes in life, a change of job, I’m not in the military anymore, so that also means a change in location. Arizona called me back from San Diego. Although I was sad to leave this is where we are supposed to be. We moved to Marana a town on the north side of Tucson it’s a great location close to work and family and best of all it is only a 10 min drive from Marana Regional Airport. The airport has 2 interesting runways 12-30 which is the long almost 7000’ runway and the sho...

Apr 05, 2017

Champ Story on Airplane Geeks

If you are like me you listen to a plethora of aviation podcasts. I think some of the best aviation news comes from them and they stay on the topic I most care about most... aviation. A few months back I was listening to an episode of the Airplane Geeks Podcast and they were talking about the airplane of the week. One of the choices was the Aeronca Champ. If you didn't know back in the fall of 2008 I received my tailwheel endorsement in a red 1942 7AC Aeronca Champ. I don't think I've loved and ...

Jan 22, 2013

T'was the night before Christmas, and out on the Ramp

This poem has been around the internet a while and probably on paper longer. Just a quick search I found it on AvWeb in 2006 and on an Airline forum in 2003. Another had posted it again this year and it made my smile so I thought I'd recored it here . I got bored and added the links in below. T'was the night before Christmas, and out on the ramp, Not an airplane was stirring, not even a Champ . The aircraft were fastened to tie downs with care, In hopes that -- come morning -- they all would be ...

Dec 22, 2012

Staying In The Pattern

This cockpit audio was recorded at least 2 1/2 years ago I don't really know. I just found it going through my computer and decided to share. I'm flying 3 touch-n-gos and have 2 other pilots in the plane with me. Dave an instructor and another buddy of mine who is a private pilot in the back seat. 3 pilots in an airplane is always fun. Download the podcast here...

Oct 11, 2012

Helo Ops on USS Princeton

Yes it's true at almost 1 year since my last audio podcast and 6 months from my last post the DesertPilot podcast is back. I recorded this episode off the deck of the USS Princeton CG-59. Enjoy. Download the Podcast here SH-60B going around...

Apr 16, 2012

[Video] Flying home (AA MD-81 into PHX)

Ok so I'm back after 5 month of Navy basic training and Operation Specialist (OS) "A" School. I'm now at my first duty station in San Diego, CA aboard the USS PRINCETON (CG-59). I have tons to learn now. It's nice to be finally where I'm suppose to be for I can do my job. Here is a small video I made on my flight home.

Sep 18, 2011

Shad's First Flight

Yesterday I took my son up in a small airplane for the first time. A fellow pilot friend Bill sent me a tweet that he needed a co-pilot for the fly to Phoenix Sky Harbor (PHX) from Stellar Air Park (P19) for Cutter Aviation's free BBQ so I said sure then asked if Shad (who is 18 months-old) could come too he said he didn't have a problem with that. Below are some of the pictures from the flight and the audio from the short flight home. Shad had a good time the only part he cried was when the eng...

Apr 14, 2011

FIFI the only Flying B-29

My youngest brother and I in November of 2010 got to go see the only flying B-29 when it came to the valley for a few days it was very neat. There was also a B-25 and B-17 there. We got to go inside of all of them and took lots of pictures. Below are some and on a link to even more. Download the short podcast of the flight over here. B-29 on take off with the B-17 and B-25 in the foreground. My little bro and the B-17 B-29 coming in for landing Hanging out the window of the B-25 Manning the guns...

Dec 22, 2010

[Video] Air Bus A320 landing PHX Sky Harbor

I did it. I made the sacrifice and switched to AT&T and now have an iPhone 4. One of the features on the iPhone is that I can upload HD video that I took and edited on my phone to Youtube. I've done a few videos and wanted to post them on here. I flew a non-rev flight to Texas to see my cusins went to a Rangers game and rode along with my cusions who is a local cop there. tons of fun....

Oct 11, 2010

[Video] CRJ-200 Sim

Last month as part of my intership at Mesa Air Group 3 other interns and I got to "play" in their Canada Regional Jet (CRJ) model 200 full motion simulator while they're was not pilot scheduled for training. It was loads of fun....

Jul 17, 2010

[Video] Flightbag and Survival Gear

A little while back I was listening to the Uncontrolled Airspace podcast ep. 186 and they were talking about flight bags and all the things that they carry in their flight bag. I was shocked when they didn't mention any survival gear that they carry. I consider survival gear an essential part of flying and my flight bag. I put this together to show everyone what I carry and give some ideas. I'm open for any input so send it my way. Arizona Survival Gear from Trevor Smith on Vimeo . Download the ...

May 29, 2010

[Video] RC School Project

In my Aircraft Design and Logistics Management class at Arizona State we made a Radio Controlled Airplane. But the way we did it was the class was step up like a company would be with a design, supply, manufacturing, etc. departments that all worked together to make the plane. I learned a lot and was a neat idea for the class. The grade we got in the class was not based on if the plane flew but how we worked together and what we learned from it. I was in the test and evaluation department and ch...

May 08, 2010

Through the students into Scottsdale

This is a recording of a flight back into Scottsdale coming home from a 5 hours Civil Air Patrol exercise. We are flying in from the north west and there are tons of students around we really had to have our heads on a swivel. http://www.archive.org/download/FlyingIntoSdl/CapIntoSdl.mp3...

Apr 19, 2010

Free Flying!

Download podcast here: http://www.archive.org/download/FundedCapFlt/fundcapflt.mp3 This flight is my first really funded flight flying for the Civil Air Patrol that I flew last Tuesday. My squadron at Falcon Field Airport ( FFZ ) just got a plane assigned to them again and today I signed up for a crew pick up flight. The Arizona Wing does consolidated maintenance and for good or for bad some has to go pick up the pilot that takes their plane in to the shop in Payson ( PAN ). On this flight I pic...

Feb 26, 2010

[Video] B-17 at IWA doing touch-n-gos

Boeing B-17 touch-n-gos at IWA from Trevor Smith on Vimeo . Podcast Download: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13836556/b17touchngo.mp4 I was driving (Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010) to Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport where I go to school back from lunch and looked up and saw the B-17G Sentimental Journey fly over the car on final a few hundred feet off the ground doing touch-n-gos. The plane is based at Falcon Field (FFZ), just to the north of IWA, and operated by the Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force I...

Feb 14, 2010

Mom's First Flight

This episode is my mother and I flying back from Payson, AZ to have breakfast with my Grandpa on his 79th Birthday. Mom did great she was a little nervous but that is normal from anyone who hasn't sent too much time in little airplanes. Here is a link to her blog where she talks about the flight and posts a few more pictures. The breakfast crew...

Feb 09, 2010

[Video] Christmas Touch-n-gos

This the promised video from the podcast from yesterday . In this video I did 4 touch-n-go's and I full stop landing back a Chandler. Merry Christmas! Desert Pilot: Christmas Touch-n-go's from Trevor Smith on Vimeo .

Dec 20, 2009

Copperstate 2009 part 2

This is part two of the podcast where we are flying back from Copperstate 2009 at Case Grande Airport (CGZ) It's not a long flight but a fun one. I posted pictures and the 3D map of this trip on the previous post Copperstate 2009 part 1. The podcast is below. enjoy.

Nov 10, 2009

Copperstate 2009 part 1

This episode is part 1 of flying with my friends Nick and Jacob to Copperstate 2009 last month. Copperstate is an EAA event and I would say that it is like Arizona’s Oshkosh. It’s is at Case Grande Airport (KCGZ) just about .5 hobbs south of Chandler where we flew out of. Below are some pics from the day we were there and this podcast, part 1, is us flying there. Hope you enjoy. This Trimotor was giving rides that I should have taken but we saw flying in and out all day. This is the heli we got ...

Nov 05, 2009

Fly-in Breakfast with Nick

This is my first try at a podcast: http://sites.google.com/site/trevjsmithfiles/podcasts/DesertPilot-flyingbackwithNick.mp3 For those of you who don't know what is that is I found a good little article about what it is. http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/what-is-a-podcast.htm I started to record cockpit audio and when I go on my flights. I haven't really got is all down with the recording and me narrating the podcast but I'll get better as I go. This flight is off to a fly-in breakfast that ...

Oct 14, 2009
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