Fast Jet Performance

(Re-recorded and shorted to 50 mins)

There will always be a lack of necessary external oversight of flight safety and organisational competence on the most visible Squadron in the RAF.

The Royal Air Fo…

Email from a pilot in military training who has frustrations with the RAF - don't worry, we all did too, but keep someone in flying training for 7 years and this is what happens.

Essays mentioned...

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This is my message to young women who are questioning themselves over whether to follow a career in aviation.

Inspiring the Future - Redraw the Balance

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Wigston Review

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A 19 year old has a medical issue that won't allow him entry into the RAF as a Pilot and he's struggling to overcome this disappointment.

FJP advice inbound with a few truth bombs delivered.

Essay that…

A pilot from Brazil wrote to me after reading one of my essays on why I left the RAF.

https://fastjetperformance.com/podcasts/why-i-quit-the-greatest-job-in-the-world-the-curse-of-the-bovril-snail/

Als…

What is like to leave the military after 20 years and why is change so hard to do?

Well, it wasn't an easy road for me, that was for sure. I had some expectations that didn't materialise, they weren't…

Interview with Sam Worthington-Leese of the Hawker Typhoon Preservation Group.

The Hawker Typhoon Preservation Group (Registered UK Charity no.1167143) is overseeing the restoration of RB396 with the …

In this presentation to an audience in Stockholm, I talked for 50 minutes about Predicting Failure, Ownership and Just Culture, The Power of the Debrief and To React or Respond.

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Interview with a young guy who just passed selection for the RAF for pilot.

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Leadership when you have to be in charge of your contemporaries. Answering an email from a young guy who is about to enter the RAF as a pilot.

Be Bold, Be Humble, Take Charge, Set an Example, Set a Di…

If a pilot fails to attain set parameters, as demonstrated by Andy Hill at the Shoreham Airshow in 2015, catastrophe awaits. 

Mr Hill was flying a Hawker Hunter jet when it crashed into a dual carriag…

Today we cover an email from an 18 year studying a vocational subject, as opposed to the traditional A-Levels, and we talk 'Mental and Emotional Health'.

I also talk about some comments I've had, bann…

A young lady on a University Air Squadron writes in to ask me if her lower class background and working class accent will prevent her from becoming a pilot in the military.

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So, a buddy of mine has entered the civilian workplace, has been given responsibility but doubts whether he is up to the task even though he was aircrew on the Tornado GR4.

This is useful for those of…

Email from a guy who has been selected through OASC but not for the pilot role he was so wanting and had worked so hard for - what advice do I have?

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Back in 2013, when flying Hawk T2s at RAF Valley, I had to put a flight safety report in: 'Failure to apply parking brake resulting in un-commanded aircraft movement.'

This made the Station Commander …

I talk with my good buddy, Chris Chambers about what Service life meant for both of us and what we are doing now we've left. Chris was a Lynx pilot and deployed multiple times to sea. What does a lif…

Today I talk with Karl, a 23 year old guy, who has been through both the Admiralty Interview Board (AIB) with the Royal Navy and the Officer Aircrew Selection Centre (OASC) for the Royal Air Force, c…

‘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 unreasonable. We knew t…