Performance Pilot: Skills, Techniques, and Strategies to Maximize Your Flying Performance

How will Performance Pilot help me?
Performance Pilot will help you...

• Speed up your flight training progress
• Prepare & practice more effectively
• Perform better on flight tests
• Learn faster & save money on lessons
• Improve your flying skills

Plus...

• Control your thoughts while flying
• Learn to armchair fly... PROPERLY!
• Achieve a peak state to fly better
• Master the mental game of flying
• Improve your concentration & consistency

What are pilots saying about Performance Pilot?
Private Pilots

Best money you'll ever spend to improve your piloting.
Frank Maier
Private pilot

Performance Pilot is full of priceless advice.
Andrew Musca-Unger
Flight Instructor & glider pilot

Airline Pilots

Gives pilots the best and most efficient techniques on improving their aircraft handling.
Anthony Crichton-Browne
A320 Captain & aerobatic pilot

I used the ideas in Performance Pilot to great effect. There is no doubting that there was definitely an improvement in my performance.
Ben Jobson
B787 First Officer

Military Pilots

As a current instructor of F18 fighter pilots, this is certainly a book I will recommend to all my students.
Marq Saunders
Fighter Combat Instructor

In short, the strategies in this book can help build better pilots.
Brent Keenan
C17A Squadron Commander

Media Reviews

This is a book that should be part of every pilot's bookcase.
Australian PILOT magazine

A must read.
People of the Sky

Ross Bentley

Ross's first career as aprofessional race car driver reached its pinnacle in the early 1990s when heraced Indy Cars against the Andrettis, Unser Jr., Mansell, Fittipaldi andRahal. A move to sports cars saw Ross win the 1998 United States Road RacingChampionship and the 2003 Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona.

As a performance coach and keynotespeaker, specializing in bringing out the best performance in individuals andteams, Ross has coached all over North America, Australia, Korea, China andEurope. In addition to race-car drivers, Ross has coached athletes, CEOs,business owners, managers, employees, and USAF pilots!

Ross also loves to write aboutperformance and, including Performance Pilot, has published eleventitles. Ross is also the author of the Speed Secrets series,about the art and science of race car driving.

PhilWilkes

Phil's eclectic flying career hasspanned more than 35 years in both military and civil aviation. He's loggedover 14,000 hours in 30 different types. In the military, Phil was academic duxof his pilot course, flew jet-trainers, and captained military transportaircraft. After leaving the air force, Phil flew low-level power-line surveybefore managing and instructing at a flying school. He's flown turbo-props onmining FIFO operations, night freight, and with a regional airline with theworld's longest route structure. He's also flown short and long-haul jets forthe most iconic of Australian carriers.

Phil loves to teach and hasconsiderable training experience teaching in flying, aircraft systems,performance, aerodynamics, military leadership, and management. He also hasexperience as a race-driving coach and ski instructor.

As an amateur race-driver, Philused Ross's performance techniques to achieve a Rookie of the Year award andthree state titles. Phil's exposure to Ross's books lead to their collaborationon Performance Pilot.