Wednesday, 9 September 2015

Trains, planes, the Great Barrier Reef and Woodstock

It was a bank holiday and we took the grandchildren on an old steam railway train. With my new f2.8 super dooper lens I rattled off dozens of pictures.

It was as I was taking this shot that it occurred to me that there is a lot in common with trains planes and a fear of flying. It was said that in the early days of the train sceptics worried that travelling at such speeds (faster than a horse could run) would upset the brain and cause the eyes to bleed. We can laugh now, but without evidence to the contrary why should anyone not have believed the critics?

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Monday, 8 June 2015

100,000 flights each day! (2014)

Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) released Aviation Benefits Beyond Borders, a detailed report on the aviation industry, in April 2014.

The report shows that there are 37.4 million flights scheduled in 2014! That is up 2.7% from 2013. And it means an average of 102,465 flights per day.

50 Years without Flying and then...

Keith,

I had not flown for nearly 50, yes 50 years, after a bad experience.

I bought your 4 Disc CD set some years ago and it completely cured my fear of flying.

I have flown nearly thirty times over the past 4 years including several times to Barra on a Twin Otter from Glasgow and several times to Rome, Tenerife etc.

I also have taken flying lessons , including a flight in a microlight.

No fear whatsoever thanks to your excellent CD.

Safety Briefing

Maybe it’s because I saw a very nasty accident when I was 20, over 50 years ago now.

Ever since then I have been almost obsessive about safety. Although I was happy to fly between trees in my Tiger Moth, happy to do low aerobatics over a girl’s house, I always considered the risks and took them into account.

Safety is no accident. Safety isn’t the result of just being careful, it’s the result of many many strands and threads of behaviour.

Wednesday, 20 May 2015

On-line Fear of Flying Course

There’s nothing worse than promising to do something and not fulfilling that promise.

Somewhat embarrassingly I’ve been promising to make the new on line course available for a while now and at each moment of the launch we’ve been faced with the dilemmas of correcting a small problem, upgrading the site or adding a feature that will improve the navigation of the site.

With nearly a hundred articles and hours of video, presentations and audio files to navigate through we want the user experience to be good from the first page you look at.

We’ll get you flying … that’s our promise

Junes says

He sure will! I’ve recently returned from my second trip to Australia flying on my own! Absolutely fantastic man who is always there for you, to support you, and help YOU work through your fears and find a strategy that works for YOU. Keith doesn’t do a ‘one size fits all’ approach he really does help you address whatever it is about flying that scares you and gets you on that plane!

Melissa says

You not only got me flying, but actually enjoying flying! I never thought it possible and I will always be grateful to you. It has changed my life.

A New Book

Someone in my family bought me an early Christmas present. It is the story of the airfield where I learnt to fly and where I first instructed.

There’s a ‘poem’ on page 77 telling the tale of a young pilot and a new aeroplane. Unfortunately the plane was called a Condor and so, Keith and the Condor was inevitably the title.