stress

We are all familiar with the idea that we can easily be a complete idiot in the air. I've done some really dumb things, and made some stupid mistakes. And you wouldn't believe some of the errors I've seen when coaching perfectly competent pilots. Even this week my student tried to take off with the canopy unlocked, and he couldn't believe what he'd done when I brought it to his

Every day before we fly we (daily) inspect our glider, we’d all agree it’s an important part of our flight.  But what about the pilot? Clearly, it’s the same, however, every day we as humans perform, react and feel different every day we wake up.  Diet, sleep, work, relationships, and a whole range of external factors affect our moods and levels of arousal. If we have a

Our emotional state is largely dependent on our assessment of how we’re feeling for the day.  Some days we can wake up, feel super good and everything seems just goes to plan.  Sadly there are other days when we wake up, fight through the day, and by the end of it, we figured it was probably better to just stay in bed, we just had a bad day.