Coaching Forms
The Pilot Goal Setting Form can be used independently or during a first coaching session
The Pilot Flight Review Form should be completed after each significant flight
The Session Feedback form helps us ensure our sessions are on track
Checklists and Prompts Sheet is an evolving sheet of potentially useful stuff.
Books
Advanced Paragliding by Gavin McClurg
Understanding the Sky by Dennis Pagen
Fifty Ways to Fly Better by Bruce Goldsmith and friends
G Dale’s ‘The Soaring Engine’ is a good series on the finer points of XC and competition flying, from a glider pilot’s perspective
The Chimp Paradox by Steve Peters is a fairly good basic explainer of some of the ways the mind works, using CBT paradigms.
Videos
Masterclasses by Cross Country magazine – as part of a Cross Country subscription. The Science of Safety by Matt Wilkes is freely available and a must-watch.
Baptiste Lambert has a fantastic series of videos on McCready, finding thermals, and gaggle flying
Honorin Hamard on how to make loops for trimming
In Person Coaching
Jocky Sanderson for performance coaching in the UK
One Day Coaching from Thomas Theurillat and his team
Chrigel Maurer offers X-Alps academy coaching and more in the Swiss Alps
Psychological Therapy for PTSD
If you are looking for psychological support for PTSD, please be minded that there are numerous private counsellors who claim they can work with trauma but who lack the specific training and skills to resolve PTSD.
It’s best to choose a professional from a small number of trusted accrediting organisations (e.g. the BABCP in the UK and Ireland, or the EMDR association).
For all current UK national NICE guidance, see https://www.nice.org.uk.
For the APA’s guidance in the USA, see https://www.apa.org/ptsd-guideline/treatments
IES-R brief questionnaire to assess for PTSD symptoms
A suggestion is to not use ‘Better Help’, the BACP, UKCP or other counselling providers or organisations which do not hold equivalent standards as BABCP and may not provide therapists with adequate training in evidence-based interventions.
Coaching and CBT for Pilots 