Insights on performance, training, and human factors

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...

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.

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

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