Runaway Autopilot! (Misadventures of a Corporate Pilot)

Happily I've experienced only a handful of scares over decades of piloting. But this one was a biggie!

So climb aboard my Flying Carpet, buckle up your seatbelt, and prepare for takeoff on today's episode, "Runaway Autopilot!"

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"This might as well be Oz," I thought, upon clearing the clouds approaching Paducah, Kentucky. I wouldn’t have been surprised to experience supersaturated sunshine, and perhaps a golden brick runway.

Tales of faraway lands work magic on youthful minds, and although I’d never been here before, the stories of a special person from my youth had cast a spell on this Ohio River town as real as any bright-hued fairy tale.

Photo: Period postcard of the Irvin Cobb Hotel, Paducah Kentucky

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Greg Brown's Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet Podcast

Greg's Book, Flying Carpet; The Soul of An Airplane "You don't have to be a pilot, or even a frequent flyer, to soar with Greg Brown in Flying Carpet."
-- Nina Bell Allen, Former Asst. Managing Editor, Readers Digest

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Flight instructing offers some of the most rewarding flying there is. We experience the joy of fulfilling our students’ dreams of flight, become better pilots ourselves in the process, and develop lifelong friendships with many of those we teach.

But among hours and hours of routine teaching and flying, there are occasional hard lessons, too, most often unanticipated. And those hard lessons are generally even more eye-opening and profound for us instructors than for our students.

Above all, we learn that while maintaining a relaxed cockpit learning environment, we must never become complacent.

Okay, everyone, hop aboard my Flying Carpet, buckle into the pilot’s seat, and prepare for takeoff on Flight Number 36, “Bowling Alley Hot Dogs.”

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Greg Brown's Cockpit Adventures from the Flying Carpet Podcast

Greg's Book, Flying Carpet; The Soul of An Airplane "You don't have to be a pilot, or even a frequent flyer, to soar with Greg Brown in Flying Carpet."
-- Nina Bell Allen, Former Asst. Managing Editor, Readers Digest

Greg's Fine Art Metal Prints, Pilot Achievement Plaques, & Photo Wall Calendars

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