Our heads are in the clouds, but our lessons are learned on the ground. Here's the advice on our minds lately.
Hindsight - isn't it a wonderful thing? Being able to look back at an event with knowledge of the outcome and knowing what went wrong and where… even why. Knowing which action, decision or sequence of decisions led to something going right or, more commonly, wrong. Everything is easier with the benefit of hindsight.
Visualisation is the process of imagining a course of action or response to a sequence of events. When used correctly it can be an incredibly powerful tool and is often used by athletes and sportsman.
How would you prepare to scale Yosemite's El Capitan's 3000ft vertical cliff without a rope?
'I multi-task all the time'…. was the statement made by one of my crew recently.
A few days ago I unintentionally turned off all power to the aircraft. Not a big deal you might think and, in this particular case, it wasn't. We had just parked up outside the terminal at Brussels and were completing the post flight administration whilst our 300 or so passengers were slowly making their way off the aircraft…..