I have over thirty years experience in the aviation industry and believe my role as an instructor is to facilitate a safe environment for my students to do their own learning. Coaching is the same. Only you know the answers, it is my job to help you identify the root of your problems and help you change your perspective.
Breathe, calm, relax, let go, reconnect, focus.
Professional Pilot
Flying is difficult, but what makes it harder is attempting to keep ‘life’ out of the cockpit.
Life changes. Fluctuations in the global economy. Competition. All these things bring unwelcome pressures. From day one, we as pilots have been taught to suppress our concerns, but, sometimes those concerns need to be aired. Rather than endangering your passengers or physically burning out, come and talk to me. All pilots at one level or another want to be the best they can be. When I did some ‘practice’ with trainee military instructors, “so they could understand the value of coaching,” they all wanted to talk about their own flying!
Coaching the General Aviation Pilot
You’re paying a lot of money for your flying fix, so why not utilise my experience as a flying instructor and coaching professional? I have 2,000 hours of flying instruction, both fixed wing and rotary, and I firmly believe you can often achieve more in an hour and a half of coaching on the ground than you can in three hours in the air.
My techniques – guided imagery, human factors, CBT and Human Givens therapy – can help you overcome mental blocks and confidence issues, enabling you to improve your focus, airmanship, communications, navigation, exam stress, trauma, and more.
Flying Instructor Certificate Instructor
I have been teaching for nearly 40 years. I am privileged now to be teaching the next generation of instructors. If you would like to come and learn to instruct, drop me a line.
Fixed wing instructor
I have been instructing fixed wing aircraft since 2007. Starting as an RAF Chinook instructor, I now teach civilian GA pilots to Private Pilot’s Licence, Restricted Instrument Rating (IR(R)) and aerobatics. To my mind, learning to fly is about keeping the right picture out of the front window – half blue, half green – knowing where to look and staying relaxed. Most importantly, though, you need to enjoy it.
Helicopter Instructor
With ratings on Robinson R22 and R44, G2 Cabri and Enstrom 480 I have been instructing people to fly helicopters since 2002. See above for my thoughts above for my thoughts about the essence of learning to fly: enjoyment, relaxation and grace under pressure.