“I was never satisfied with simply doing well. Even after getting a good result in a test or a flight, if I’d made a mistake I would want to fix that mistake and ensure I got it perfect for the next time. Back in our
quarters I would run my own debrief. I’d go through a flight over and over, thinking through what I should’ve done and reinforcing in my mind what I would do in the future.
I was very big into visualising — replaying a sight picture over and over the way it should unfold — and inevitably the next day it would happen that way. This skill became one of my greatest strengths, in fact, and a technique I used often when flying fighters and instructing, and particularly in the Red Bull Air Race many years later.”
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Matt is a former RAAF fighter combat instructor, international unlimited aerobatic competitor and Red Bull Air Race pilot. Quote from his book The Sky Is Not The Limit: The Life of Australia’s Top Gun. Title from the Rolling Stones song, maybe one of the best descriptions of the first Noble Truth of Buddhism.
