Passive briefings are ineffective briefings. High Performance Brief structures your preparation so that when you sit down with your crew, the conversation is interactive, threat-focused, and genuinely worth having.
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Threat-Led Briefing
Identify threats first. Everything else follows.
The WANT phase anchors threat identification before any other preparation. Weather, aircraft, and NOTAMs are reviewed with one question in mind: what could go wrong on this flight, today? Named threats become the agenda for the HOW discussion.
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Competency-Based Development
Every brief is a development opportunity
For each threat, you choose which specific behaviours you are consciously applying to avoid or mitigate it. This connects your briefing directly to the nine core competencies — making every flight a deliberate practice act, not just a procedural requirement.
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Part of the HPP Ecosystem
Brief well. Develop further.
High Performance Brief is part of the High Performance Pilot suite. The behaviours you identify in your brief connect directly to the competency development tools in HPP — building a record of how you approach the highest-stakes moments in your flying.
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Structured crew briefing for high performance operations
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✦ About High Performance Brief
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HPB structures each phase of flight as its own brief cycle — Departure, Cruise, and Approach. Each brief follows the same WANT → WHAT → HOW model, with content filtered to what matters at that point in the flight.
Each brief is a structured opportunity to develop core CRM competency behaviours. Threats identified and competencies applied are recorded in your history.
✦ Aim of every brief
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1Promote an interactive brief — 5 to 10 minutes, structured, threat-led, and genuinely two-way. A brief is not a monologue.
2Build a shared mental model — both pilots understand the plan before the first clearance
3Identify threats — what could go wrong on this flight, today
4Agree strategies to avoid or mitigate every identified threat
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Departure
Full sector brief
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Cruise
Update & reassess
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Approach
Arrival & landing
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WANTWHATHOW
WANT
Brief together as a crew. Tap any item for guidance.
First
Threats
Select new threats
W
Weather
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Aircraft
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NOTAMs
✓ Checklist
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✓ Checklist
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✓ Checklist
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Select specific threats for this flight. Tap a group to expand, tap a threat to select it.
Threats for this flight
Selected threats appear here. Add any not in the list above.
WHAT
Individual preparation. Complete before the verbal brief.
✦ About this phase
WHAT is your individual preparation — the facts and figures you gather before the verbal brief begins. Complete WHAT independently so the HOW phase can focus entirely on threats, strategies, and shared understanding.
Departure Brief
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Complete individually from charts and OFP before the verbal brief
Arrival & Approach Brief
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Complete individually from approach plates before the verbal brief
✦ Shared Mental Model
HOW
Discuss together. Build understanding. Set strategies.
Threat Strategies
Normal Operations
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✓ Checklist
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Emergency & Abnormal
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Performance Cross-Check
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Both pilots confirm the following have been cross-checked and agreed.
✦ Before you complete
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Brief Complete
Your structured brief is saved. Fly safe.
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Cruise Review
Starting your review
✦ Threat Carry-Forward
These threats were identified in your previous brief. Which are still active for this phase?
No threats from previous briefs to carry forward.
Cruise
Review
Threat-led crew review. Update the shared picture.
Carried from departure
Threats
Threats
Select new threats
Threats for this review
Selected threats appear here. Add any not in the library above.
✦ Review
Emergency&Non-Normal
Create contingencies — choose a procedure and review as a crew