I'm a former fighter pilot and flying instructor and I'm bringing the high performance world of military aviation to your home and work life #Warriors!
Life after 40 often brings a series of profound changes, from shifting family dynamics to evolving career aspirations. Many find themselves questioning their purpose and seeking new ways to rekindle passion in their personal and professional lives. Embracing self-esteem, purpose, integrity, and even negativity can be the keys to unlocking a fulfilling new chapter.
I have the power to destroy everything in my world, but I choose not to. Some days that choice is harder to make than on…
What would you say if I said you could be anything you wanted to be, right now? Today. A famous movie actress, an award-winning scientist or a sports star who just got signed to their favourite...
Uniformed Police Officers, wearing body armour and carrying Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine guns pulled tightly into their shoulders, stepped silently through the busy supermarket’s doors. It was a hot and humid July day on…
‘Fail the trip.’ I said to the flying instructor who’d just flown with one of our top students. He gave me a confused look. I was expecting it - my demand, to him, was entirely…
It was a blinding flash of sunlight that forced my eyes to squint into the distance and my heart-rate to soar - but it was no good… I’d lost her. The dim outline of a…
‘I plan for the 6th order effect and I do it in about half a second.’ If I had heard that from anyone other than another fighter pilot…
‘Are we going to die, again?’ That’s all my Weapons Officer (WSO) said to me when I asked him for the time. ‘Bro, the CHECK-IN-TIME, when is it?’ I repeated as I…
‘RECOVER!’ came the shout from the back seat of my Tornado GR4 combat jet but it wasn’t necessary - I had already started…
‘Well, that's the flying done.’ I thought, as the jet slowly rolled to a stop. And, as I moved the throttle to the closed position, I knew it would be the last time I ever flew…
I am expensive. Not that I have an apartment in Knightsbridge and wear Louis Vuitton shoes, no, but to the taxpayer, I am worth a…
‘EJECT, EJECT!’ screamed my student from the front seat of our military training jet…
I like millennials. There, I’ve said it. And, before my inbox explodes with all the hate mail from…
It looked just like any other overhyped boxing match of recent times. The older guy who had already made a tonne of…
Emotionally, and especially for a fighter pilot, it was going to be a difficult day. It started with the fact…
You know the feeling you get when you’ve done something wrong and you’re about to get into trouble? You’re afraid…
What top tips do I have for presenting to people? What is the 20/20/20 rule? Why should you try to introduce yourself whilst standing on tip toes? Why you should NEVER talk to the board!…
We think about ourselves a lot. If you were stuck in a cage with a crocodile you'd think about that a lot too but you're not stuck…
In early 2012, I was flying with a good friend of mine when I made a mistake…
It was all going horribly wrong. I was a military fast jet pilot and I was in a spin, things were coming…
I have a question for you. If you had to go to lunch tomorrow with someone that you’d never met before, would you feel nervous? It’s just like a blind date, I guess. But wait…
Want to know a pretty good way of killing yourself? Fly an aircraft long enough that you get lazy, let your standards slip and do something stupid. Highly skilled jobs need…
So, I've just swapped the cockpit of my military fast jet for a desk in an office and, WHOA... ...Am I learning about communication! Or the lack of it. I'm probably just not familiar with…
It was the sort of thing that only happened to other people but now it had happened to me. 'That's so wrong mate, I'd put a…
I've had a guy in his late teens write in to ask a few questions so I thought I’d…
Today I get together with Theresa who is a Psychiatrist and mental health practitioner to talk at length on diet and nutrition and how to increase performance.Also covered are the problems with priorities, why we feed…
A quote that is often attributed to John Lennon was actually first used in 1957 in an issue of Reader’s Digest by a man…
I decided that I was not going to die today. And with that I closed the throttle and, as the nose of my fighter jet lazily…
Did you know that some people come up with great ideas everyday that could earn them millions? It’s totally true. I had a buddy who came up with an app that…
What is it with everybody becoming famous all of a sudden? Is it me or is it that every time I turn on the TV there's some celebrity…
Of my friends and colleagues that have been killed in military aircraft, they have all had one thing in common…
My team of instructors had just told me that they were never going to fly with him again and here he…
Want to know what we should've been told at school? Remember those career advisors who told you to do the right thing and get a steady job like your parents did? Well, they…
We’ve all done it and if you haven’t you probably know someone who has. You're having a conversation, driving home from work or watching TV when you suddenly realise that…
Something was very wrong in my aeroplane.My student had locked the missile onto the heat plume of the hostile aircraft and I could hear the familiar…
His fist connected with my lower jaw, throwing my head back several feet from the impact…
She was crying. It happens, and I knew that the best thing to say was nothing…
It became apparent to me during my last tour that a lot of the effort that I put into my work was inefficient. I remember speaking to a senior officer whilst I…
The picture above is from the actual sortie I talk about here and was taken 2 minutes before the start of the target run. We all know that pilots are an…
Yep, my instructor had made it pretty clear that I had a choice to make and I was going to have to make it fast. Ahead…
When 25 year old Taylor Swift sold her 40 millionth album and became the youngest woman ever to be included on Forbes' ‘100…
If I gave you some darts and stood you in front of a dartboard for a year, could you become the…
‘WOLF 3 DEFENDS SA-11 BEARING 020!' came the call from the back pair of our low-level 4-ship of Tornado GR4 bombers. Our formation had…
What's wrong with the youth of today? Recently we noticed some young employees doing a project for our civilian partners and when they had finished, and the…
If you are reading this then you are most likely to be a high-achiever or on the road to becoming one. You see, only 10% of people read or listen…
So I haven't signed up to the new gym yet and I'm probably not going to start that language course I looked at but I might learn the sousaphone - except I…
It's a familiar story to us all. We're struggling with a heavy workload when along comes the boss and hands us yet another task - we roll our eyes and accept it…
When writing I often find it all too easy to end up widely off message narrating a vitriolic polemic about some imagined injustice in the world - this post was no different…
I've recently been away from work for a couple of weeks having to take some remaining leave before the deadline of 31 March when all leave resets. I've done a few…
I've been a UK based fast jet pilot since the early 2000's having joined the military in 1998. I've flown fast jets for all of my career and have never had a…