Desert Pilot Podcast

Check out this map I made using my Garmin GPSmaps 96 : This is just a screenshot so it you can't see much detail but if you click HERE to download the file and see in Google Earth . You can zoom in a on the map and see exactly what I flew and even see where I parked at the airport. Here is how I did it. Garmin came out with this program called BaseCamp . You can just upload the route you flew, drove, hiked, whatever. There was lots flights on my GPS just select the one you want, this one is a flight I took a few weeks ago . Then there is a menu at the top where you can view your selected route in Google Earth. Then to get it from Google Earth to maps you export it to a .kml file. and upload to a site like Google sites and you put the link of the file in Google maps and it will show up as shown above. This is the only way I could figure out how you do it. If anyone know an easier way let me know.

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 was still just about 90F when I left. Mt. Ord Me Flying back into the valley about 0930 just under 100F

Jessica had the last day of school today and now we had the whole summer to go or just the 2 months that it is. The camping trip is now canceled because well from what I hear there is going to be a 3 or 4 in. of snow on the ground so well it doesn't sound like fun camping. so the back up plan is to go see Indiana Jones and go out to eat it should be good I'm really excited well.  So in my life things are going well i went on my first flight cross county trip it was really fun. I had plans to fly up to Prescott then over to Payson and eat lunch there. But when i woke up that morning and looked at the weather it was too windy in Prescott so I had to make a change in plans but i had to fly at a airport that was above 4000 ft. so the only one that was close and had good weather was Willcox. We didn't stay in that whole long then we went up to Safford. The flight felt like my first flight all over again. there was so much going on inside the plane it was crazy. A lot of new thin...