Desert Pilot Podcast

Episodes

1. 10

   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:...

   Oct 1, 2019
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   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⇢ ✈︎...

   Sep 1, 2019
3. 8

   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 ✈︎…

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   Aug 1, 2019
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   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:...

   Jul 15, 2019
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   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:...

   Jul 1, 2019
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   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: [email protected]

   Jun 21, 2019
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   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:...

   Jul 15, 2018
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   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...

   Jun 15, 2018
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   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: [email protected]

   May 15, 2018
10. 1

    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: [email protected]

    Apr 15, 2018
11. 133

    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...

    Apr 5, 2017
12. 132

    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...

    Jan 22, 2013
13. 131

    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.…

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    Dec 22, 2012
14. 130

    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…

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    Oct 11, 2012
15. 129

    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
16. 128

    [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...

    Sep 18, 2011
17. 127

    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...

    Apr 14, 2011
18. 126

    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...

    Dec 22, 2010
19. 125

    [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…

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    Oct 11, 2010
20. 124

    [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
21. 123

    [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...

    May 29, 2010
22. 122

    [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...

    May 8, 2010
23. 121

    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
24. 120

    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...

    Feb 26, 2010
25. 119

    [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…

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    Feb 14, 2010
26. 118

    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...

    Feb 9, 2010
27. 117

    [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
28. 116

    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
29. 115

    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...

    Nov 5, 2009
30. 114

    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...

    Oct 14, 2009
31. 113

    [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...

    Aug 2, 2009
32. 112

    [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…

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    Jul 29, 2009
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    [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...

    Jul 3, 2009
34. 110

    [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...

    May 11, 2009
35. 109

    [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 8, 2009