Gregory N. Brown

Greg Brown's love for flying is obvious to anyone who knows his "Flying Carpet" column in AOPA Flight Training magazine, or who has read his books, You Can Fly!, Flying Carpet: The Soul of an Airplane, The Savvy Flight Instructor, The Turbine Pilot's Flight Manual, and Job Hunting for Pilots.

A CFI since 1979, Greg was 2000 Industry/FAA National Flight Instructor of the Year, and winner of the 1999 NATA Excellence in Pilot Training Award. He has flown professionally in both scheduled and corporate aviation, and holds an ATP pilot certificate with Boeing 737 type rating, and Flight Instructor certificate with all fixed-wing aircraft ratings. In addition, Greg was the first "Master CFI" designated by the National Association of Flight Instructors.

More recently Greg's activities have turned to non-fiction and creative writing. Author of five commercially published books with more in progress, Mr. Brown was named November 2003 Barnes & Noble Arizona Author of the Month. Some reviewers have compared his book, Flying Carpet, to sixties road-trip classics like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Since 2000, Mr. Brown has served as aviation adventure columnist for AOPA Flight Training, a national newsstand magazine published by the world's largest pilot association.

Along with his writing activities, Greg has been an avid photographer from childhood. Since earning his pilot’s license at age 19, he’s been shooting photos from aloft, many of which have illustrated his Flying Carpet column and book. Greg’s most memorable aerial photographs are now being released as limited edition fine art C-prints, and fine art metal prints.

For those bewildered by Greg's schizophrenia between the arts and aviation, some understanding may be derived from one of his favorite quotes, taken from The War in the Air, 1922, by Sir Walter Raleigh: "The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul."

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