The Empirical Skeptic
Update IFALPA says “Stop speculating about MH370“ The Empirical Skeptic Viewers of last night’s Air Crash Investigators program (Australia on Channel 7) have asked me many questions including: Why...
View ArticleMy Next Book Announced
Sunrise from the ISS (Photo NASA) We are in safe hands! Australia’s future women pilots. (Photo RDC) I am excited to announce my next book <name withheld>. The timing of this next book now...
View Article“Resilience at the edge of chaos” (My interview with Mark Bouris)
I enjoyed being interviewed by Mark Bouris this week about “Resilience at the edge of chaos”. We discussed issues ranging from the neuroscience of leadership to survive ‘Black Swan events’, to future...
View Article3 Interviews on Black Swans, Resilience & Oshkosh “Theater in the Woods”
“Knowledge” Painting by Coplu (Coplu.Com) Report on Resilience “Resilience – Recovering pilots’ lost flying skills” The Royal Aeronautical Society, London has published the report that I produced...
View ArticleTechnical – QF32’s Hydraulics, Apollo 13 and the “Fog of War”
Your Highness Ms Universe by Coplu (Coplu.Com) Mike asks: Hi Richard, Having read your book QF32 and a number of resources available online, please let me ask one question regarding your video...
View ArticleRAeS & ICAO –“Nancy-Bird Walton Lecture”
Side by Side: Two “birds in a gilded cage” (by Coplu, coplu.com) I am honoured to present the inaugural Nancy-Bird Walton Lecture on behalf of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) at the...
View ArticleDecision Making (…..& ptsd)
Below find a link to the High Stakes video, a one hour SBS Insight program in which I join many people discussing how people make high-stakes decisions in the face of life and death. Decision Making is...
View ArticleHappy New Year
Happy New Year! (Thanks to my dear friend Coplu for the rights to display his beautiful art (Coplu.Com)) My last day of 2016 ended with a twenty four hour long tour of duty flying from Melbourne to...
View ArticleFINALLY- FLY! IS AIRBORNE
I am pleased to announce that my next book called FLY! – Life Lessons from the Cockpit of QF32 is available NOW in Australian book shops, just in time for Fathers’ Day. Purchase autographed paper...
View ArticleFlying Approaches for Dummies
Version 3, Feb 25, 2021 TECHNICAL – FOR PILOT’S EYES ONLY QF32 follower Riccardo Parachini writes: Hi Richard, I’d like to ask a curiosity. Cadet pilots starting their career on a big jet (say A320,...
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