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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WANT structures your briefing into four phases — Weather, Aircraft, NOTAMs, Threats — giving each pilot time to complete individual facts before coming together to build a shared mental model in the HOW phase.
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WANT
Brief together as a crew. Tap any item for guidance.
✦ Aim of this brief
1Build a shared mental model — both pilots understand the plan
2Identify threats — what could go wrong on this flight, today
3Agree strategies to avoid or mitigate every identified threat
4Promote an interactive brief — both pilots contribute, question and confirm
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Threats
Identify before you review
W
Weather
A
Aircraft
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NOTAMs
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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. A strong brief concentrates on HOW, not on reading numbers aloud. 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
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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Confirm performance figures are agreed. Both pilots cross-check before departure.