Insights on performance, training, and human factors

In every high-performance environment - whether it’s the cockpit, the boardroom, or the running track - feedback is the currency of improvement. Yet too often, feedback is misunderstood. It’s treated as criticism, or worse, ignored completely. The truth is that feedback isn’t about judgement; it’s about adaptation . It’s the mechanism that allows humans to refine skill, improve focus, and make better decisions under pressure. That’s why I developed the Focus Feedback Cycle -

Stress has a bad reputation. We hear the word and immediately think of overwhelm, fatigue, or burnout. But in both sport and business,...

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

Change is the only constant - in sport, aviation, and life. Yet most people treat it as something to survive, not something to train for....

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

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...

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...

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...

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