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Stories from a Commercial Land & Sea Pilot
An ifr story I finally did it this December I passed my instrument rating so I’m now a commercial land and sea instrument rated pilot single...
This audio is my father, my son and I flying into Tucson international airport (KTUS) . Recorded in June 2019. _________ Find the podcast on...
This audio is my son and I departing San Manuel Airport (E77) flying clockwise around Mt. Lemmon through the Redington Pass into Tucson inte...
This audio is my son and I departing Tucson international airport (KTUS) on a flight to do some landings at San Manuel Airport (E77) recorde...
This is more audio at Tucson international airport (KTUS) with Wright Flight recorded in April 2019 approach and landing. _________ Find the...
This is more audio at Tucson international airport (KTUS) with Wright Flight recorded in April 2019 approach and landing. _________ Find the...
This is some audio of me taking off at Tucson international airport (KTUS) with Wright Flight recored in April 2019. ===== Find the podcast...
So I just found out for the 2020 Mars Lander that you can put your name on a microchip and send it to the red planet. I guess this has been...
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...
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 Int...
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_0kfk...
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: @DesertPilotT...
I wrote this post in April 2017 and never posted it. So here it is: Last weekend I had the chance to walk through Boeing B-17G Flying Fortre...
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 ca...
My last flight in 2015 was a perfect April day with light winds, clear skies and temperatures in the mid 70s F. The crew was myself, my son...
Tony a friend from work has been asking me to take him up flying. Actually he is an avid skydiver and has been asking me to jump out of my a...
Back in February I finally did my flight review for the next coming year. Our club requires a yearly review, which is good since I had not b...
John Gillespie Magee, Jr. was 19 years-old become fighter pilot in for the RAF in 1941 and died later that year in battle. He wrote this Poe...
Made this video when I went flying last fall. Clouds are a rare site in Arizona so it's a big deal when you see one.
Some of you might think that I have fallen off of the blogging world. Well you would be kind of right. With work, home, and trying to finish...
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 th...
It was that time again to renew my FAA medical, and if you are like me then you are new to the FAA's online process. The FAA have stream lin...
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 Airli...
Today I official graduated from ASTAC school I received my call sign "Atlas". Not the paper map, the greek god charged with holding up the e...
I passed my last section and the finals week. The last thing that we had to learn was P-3C Orion employment. They are the only fixed wing ai...
The next part of our training we were tested on was the implantation of the MH-60R Seahawk . Up to this point we had simulated controlling t...
The so called hardest week of Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) is over and I passed. I say so called not because it wasn't hard but because we a...
I was doing some online aviation training with the AOPA Air Safety Foundation I took a couse on mastering radio communications . It was a gr...
It's was that time again last weekend for the 2012 MCAS Miramar Airshow . This year it was just my son and I going to the show. The US Navy...
We are through our 2nd or phase of training and our 2nd test. All is well. This phase or week as they still call them, although the couse is...
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 in school right now. Not back to college but at school for the Navy. I got selected to go to (are you ready for this) Anti-Submarine War...
I just came back from the largest naval exercise in the world and unlike the movie Battleship there was no aliens that attacked. The whole e...
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 e...
My 2 year old son Shad, brother in-law Jayce and I went to the Miramar air show a few weeks ago. It was way cool and Shad loved it. I really...
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,...
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...
This last week I went flying for the Civil Air Patrol (CAP). Unlike most days in Arizona where the skies are clear or maybe just some high s...
Today is Arizona birthday. My wife put this flag together for me and a friend, she can really do wonders with Photoshop. I love her. Also I...
So since my brother Brendon has been back from his mission he has not been flying with me. I got my private pilot certificate about a month...
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....
Yep I did it, On November 1st I swore in and joined the U.S. Navy. I know there might be a lot of questions so I'll just tel the whole story...
Copperstate Fly-In 2010 Oct 23, 2010 by Ben Cowden View Album Play slideshow Here are some photos from this years EAA Copperstate 2010, I fl...
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 vide...
I know it’s been a while but it’s been a very eventful summer and now I’m back in school and all is well… Right. If you haven’t been followi...
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 m...
This is a short segment (3min) from NPR that talks about the decline in student pilots in the US and why. It's great to help anyone understa...
This last Wednesday morning I did my first Civil Air Patrol cadet Orientation Flight (or O flight). Three 13 year-old cadet boys and I went...
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...
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 cla...