I became a pilot because I was drawn to the precision of it — the way aviation demands that you show up fully, every time, no matter how you feel. There's no "off day" at 35,000 feet. That constraint forced me to build systems.
What I didn't expect was how much aviation already knows about human performance — situational awareness, cognitive load, decision-making under pressure, fatigue management — frameworks developed over decades of learning from accidents and near-misses. The aviation industry has spent billions figuring out how humans fail and how to prevent it.
Most of that knowledge never leaves the industry. It stays in crew resource management manuals and accident reports that nobody outside aviation reads. That felt like a waste.
Pilot Psychology is my attempt to change that. To take what aviation has learned — about awareness, decision-making, peak performance, and mental health — and translate it into something useful for anyone who performs under pressure. Which is most people, most of the time.
I'm not a therapist. I'm a pilot who reads the research, lives the constraints, and thinks about this stuff constantly. The podcast is where I work it out in public.