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We, as humans, are creatures of habit. It’s a mindset embedded within us from our days as hunter gatherers (and probably well before...

As humans, we know a remarkably large amount of what’s going on around us. We see everything, hear everything, taste everything, smell...

In high-stakes environments - like aviation, emergency response, sport, and leadership - we talk a lot about situational awareness. But...

Aviation is one of the safest industries in the world - not by accident, but by design. Through decades of hard-earned lessons, aviation...

I joined the RAF back in 2016, after the findings of Haddon-Cave’s Nimrod review . The changes to culture were already well and truly...

In today’s fast-paced world, we send more messages - but understand less. Whether it’s a WhatsApp from a coach, a safety note in...

In aviation, sport, and leadership, few things erode trust faster than blame. In high-performance environments, where human error is...

As human beings, we are all fallible. Mistakes occur, despite knowing every Human Factor at play and identifying the potential for errors...

How many times do we see it in our day-to-day lives? Whether its an email to our boss that they took the wrong way, or a text to a family...

While flying recently, I was handling the aircraft on an instrument approach in for a touch and go. I was wearing the oxygen mask, as we...

Communication always comes with its challenges, but there are ways we can overcome these and avoid ambiguity.

Technology is used in today’s society as both a help and a hinderance. We utilise it in all aspects of our lives, and sleep is no...

Everywhere you look, there is a lot more focus on sleep than there has been over the past decade. Previously people would wear the badge...

Investigating accidents and incidents serves one sole purpose; to identify the causes and prevent recurrence. Over time, this data can be...

On 1st June 2009, Air France Flight 447 was flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. During the flight, the Airbus 330-200 flew through some...

In most walks of life, people find themselves in high pressure situations. This often builds over time, with increasing workload, or...

I’m not always making errors; despite whatever picture these articles may appear to paint. But I am open about them, as I genuinely...

When flying frontline operations, I frequently found myself working varying hours. Set shifts were certainly not a thing. One day we...

Sitting in a Grob 115A cockpit, at the hold on an empty airfield I ran through the pre-take-off checklist. It was my first time taking a passenger flying, after completing RAF flying training and finishing off the final elements of my civilian licence. I was eager to get airborne, and although there was no pressure to get going, I did feel the pressure of the responsibility of someone else’s life who didn’t have a clue how the aircraft worked. I’d only ever flown next to an i