Desert Pilot Podcast

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Commercial Airplane Land, Sea, and tailwheel Pilot from Arizona podcasting aviation flying adventures.

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[Video] CAP Mountain Ground School

Got my first free flying "mission" with CAP today. It wasn't a lot it was a short 20min flight from Chandler to Deer Valley airport and back. I shared the flight with 2 others so I only flew on the way back. All the pics I took from the back seat on the way there. I hadn't been in the back for about 6-7 years. The pic below is some of the CAP planes in a row before we left at Deer Valley and it looked cool. Here is what we flew. I think I would fly around the valley when I do it again because of...

Aug 02, 2009

[Video] Chandler to Payson, AZ

This is my new DIY camera clip that I made to hold my my camera and clip it to the dash board. I drilled a hole in the top and put a screw in there it worked pretty well. As you can tell from the video. Went to Payson, AZ to take some pics of a train set my Grandpa wants me to sell on ebay . I still need flight time so flew. It's just over 50nm but climbs 4000ft. in elevation so the ground comes up to meet you. View CHD to PAN in a larger map Started in Chandler 0530 trying to beat the heat it w...

Jul 29, 2009

[Video] Safety Pilot

I went Flying with David, from the Phoenix Pilot Group meetup, who needed to do some instrument approaches to stay IFR current. You don't need a instructor to do this just another pilot. He had a great just over 10 year old Bonanza in great shape and flew just as well. We flew from Gateway an the did some VOR, GPS, and ILS approches in to Coolidge and Case Grande until coming back and doing 2 into Gateway to make it 6. under the hood beautiful morning me more of the valley...

Jul 03, 2009

[Video] Sells, AZ E78 airport

I Flew to Sells, AZ today. I love finding and going to new airports. This one is a smaller airport with tight runway with cracks in the pavement lined with bushes and trees. I had never landed with trees so close to the runway it was a neat new experience.This is looking down runway 22 My trusty 152 at the runway 4 end. The house that had a helicopter take off from it and what looked like a fuel truck was there. What was the FBO. E78 from the air. Saw this after I landed at Chandler (CHD). very ...

May 11, 2009

[Video] Cactus Fly-in

This is the first Fly-in that I flew in to. Super fun! http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13836556/cactus09.mp4

Mar 08, 2009

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