Insights on performance, training, and human factors

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