The Most Important Sentence in the Flight Manual
What do you think the most important sentence is in the flight manual? A Bold face procedure? This is “considered critical.” It is not a bold face procedure. A warning? This is defined as...
Author: Adam Young
What Makes Us “Exceptional”
There are three attributes of Coast Guard rotary wing aircrews that few other helicopter aircrews can match, the combination of which separates our community from most other rotary wing communities: As “Forging Airmanship” iterates,...
Iron Sharpens Iron
If you’ve read some of the OPI posts, you know I like metaphors. “Iron sharpens iron” is one of my favorites. Anyone who has achieved an exceptional level of performance knows it cannot be...
It is not Supposed to be Easy
I am repeating myself intentionally. Our work provides us with plenty of challenges – government shutdowns, COVID, budget woes, asset sourcing difficulties, family moves, etc. Each member is also tested, individually, due to unique...
Create
Most of the time, the aviators I was charged to lead actually showed me the way. They didn’t need to hear me preach, but as I have mentioned before, OPI was as much for...
Styrofoam weights
Other pilots have heard me say, you can be a 1000-hour pilot, or you can fly the same hour 1000 times… I wrote to the team: My goal was to support them in becoming...
WIN
To operate from a position of integrity we must have discipline to optimize our finite resources (in this case time, energy, focus). Brian Johnson equation review… (time x energy x focus x “what is...
Consistency
Continuing to pull on the consistency thread, after Marcus Canady, the author of the book “Intrusive Leadership”,spoke to our team, I was motivated to write this message: The consistency piece is true in many...
Close the Gap
Abraham Maslow illuminated his concept of self-actualization by saying, “what one can be, one must be.” One of my favorite coaches, Brian Johnson, who also embraces this concept of our desire to self-actualize, talks...
Responding to a Mishap
In Ready, aim, fire (post #10 ) and The Guardian (post #11), I shared with you the commitment to the process, not the outcome, that we worked to foster in our helicopter aircrews –...