As advertised in Skywings and on the BHPA website, we have a Club Coach Course organised at Camphill on the 17th and 18th of March. Although primarily designed to train club coaches, I would recommend this two-day BHPA course to anyone with an interest in the art of coaching on our hills. The course material is pitched to ordinary pilots yet covers the subject to some depth: You'll be taught coaching strategies, flying psychology, how to communicate effectively... and even how to develop your listening skills! I would personally recommend the course as a real eye-opener to this essential but often underrated skill.
These courses cost £30 per person and tend to end up being oversubscribed. Up to now I've been making sure our new club coaches (and existing coaches due their 5-year refreshers) have had an opportunity to enlist before advertising the course more widely. But now we're opening it up to everyone in the club, and will be advertising it to neighbouring clubs over the next few days. So if you're interested, I suggest that you sign up as soon as possible, as we can't take more than 25.
Please give me a call if you have any questions, need any more details or want to book.
Ash
07859 912922
The BHPA Coaching course, will not make you a great DSC coach but it is a great starting point.
We are all willing to help our fellow members on the hills. So why not make it a little more formal. learn to help your fellow pilots in an simple and efficient manner in the company of your peers at the BHPA DSC coaching course.
The course is open to any pilot and is a fun fulfilling experience with no obligation to be out coaching. Your choice.
You might want to have a look at this DSC page. You might want to add or improve this page for your fellow members?
http://derbyshiresoaringclub.org.uk/pilot-information/
Steve.
Dear Club coaches.
What about a Club coaching evening, where the coaches just have an informal chat about flying situations.
https://vimeo.com/115863618
A sort of all singing from the same page plan?
Steve.
I remember one of your videos, look before you turn before you die. My head is on a swivel in busy thermals, a lot of the time I look for the exit rather than the climb especially when the flying of others gets a bit too random. Unfortunately even this early in the season I have witnessed and had pilots fly straight at me or other pilots established in a thermal.
Can we start a discussion on how to fly with each other?
How to be a better pilot is not always about aggressively working lift F--- the rest. Sometimes it works best, to cooperate?
Flying straight at the centre of a thermal? https://youtu.be/upEmDwpcvgU
Steve