Anybody who’s undergone flight training will hopefully recognise the phrase…

“Power + Attitude = Performance”

But I’ve always through the phrase spans beyond simply being a way of understanding aircraft performance, infact, I think it could be a life coaching mantra. It sounds almost like a simple equation to success, balancing power and attitude (to maintain a ‘assertive equilibirum’ – to achive performance … to go places.

One of the things I love about learning to fly is the amount of inherited wisdom that exist in the aviation world. There are lots of phrases like:

• Its better to be down here wishing you were up there, than up there wishing you were down here.
• Runway behind you, altitude above you and fuel in the truck – are all useless.

These are simple facts eloquently stated and, if you’re a bit over enthusiatic like me, you can apply then to general life situations.