Bookable individually
Before and
after
A flying day has three parts: the preparation, the flight and the debrief. The flight is the middle one and the only one everyone takes care of. You can have the other two from me individually, from anywhere, even without us flying together.
Before
The briefing
Not “Chris tells me the weather”. We go through your day together: the forecast in detail, the potential and the hazards, which routes are possible and where the key spots on the flight are. Plus several plans and where you can decide in the air when reality differs from what you expected.
Day briefing
CHF 45 for 30 minutes30 minutes · online · the evening before
You have tomorrow off and want to fly. We look at your day: what is possible, what you need to watch for, where the hazards are. At the end you know what you would need to see for your plan to work out and what you do if you don’t see it.
Site briefing
CHF 120 for 60 minutes60 minutes · online · for an unfamiliar valley
You want to fly a day in Valais, in the Bernese Oberland or somewhere else you don’t know well. An unfamiliar valley needs more than a forecast: the wind system, the launches, the landing options, the airspace and the three or four spots where you pay attention there.
For two (flying partners or a couple with a similar goal) it’s CHF 40 extra. You need to be planning the same flying day, otherwise it becomes a briefing for each of you.
What you take away
One sheet
No minutes and no slides. One sheet you look at again the next morning before you set off.
- The expected cloud base and when the thermals start
- The wind system of the day: from where, how strong, from when
- Two key spots and what makes them difficult
- Plan A, Plan B and Plan Z, the way out
- The point at which you throw your plan away
A briefing is an assessment, not a clearance. I tell you what I see and how I would read it. Whether you launch is your decision and you make it at launch, not the evening before.
After
The debriefing
The flight is over, now the learning starts. Send me your track, with your three highlights and three spots where you could have done better. A few days later we look at it together, so that you can apply the takeaway on your next flight.
Why not at the landing field
Right after the flight, ten minutes are part of it, no more. As a starting point, while everything is fresh. After that your head is empty and tiredness is the biggest enemy of learning. Complex things need time; the good idea comes in the shower and not in the landing field. That’s why a debriefing online a few days later is the better format.
One-to-one debriefing
CHF 120 for 60 minutes60 minutes · 1:1 · online
Your flight, your track, your questions. We go through it until you understand why the day was the way it was. You come away with two or three concrete things for your next flights, not with a list of mistakes.
Group debriefing
CHF 60 per person90 minutes · maximum 5 people · online
Everyone brings a flight, everyone is at roughly the same level. You learn faster from other people’s mistakes and they hurt less. And most of the time someone else notices something in your track that I would never have thought of.
Season debriefing
CHF 2402 hours · 1:1 · November to February
Once a year, look at the whole year instead of a single flight. What were the three highlights, where did you really make progress, what carried you. And then looking ahead: goals you can measure, goals you can’t measure and a timeline that shows you in July whether you are on course.
How I debrief
- Subjective and objective kept apart
- On one side gut feeling, tension, the moment it got too much for you. On the other forecast, measurements, clouds, track. Both count, but mixed together they get you nowhere.
- In 2D and in 3D
- From above you see the line: where you circled, where you waited, when you set off. The 3D view adds the height: how much you really had and how good the climb was. Together that usually explains why you decided the way you did.
- Three and three and three
- Three moments that were good. Three that weren’t. Three things you do differently next time. Nobody remembers more than three.
- You talk more than I do
- Roughly one third input from me, two thirds your questions. Anyone who has no questions isn’t there yet, then we talk about something else.
- The goal is that you don’t need me
- Knowledge you worked out yourself is there when you need it under stress, knowledge you were handed isn’t. That’s why I give you the answer as rarely as possible and would rather ask the question that lets you get there yourself.
What I need
The track as an IGC file or the link to your flight, at the latest two days before. I look at it beforehand, otherwise we lose half an hour searching. Plus your three highlights and three spots where you could have done better and, if you like, what you want to know.
In between
And the flight itself
Briefing and debriefing work without me in the air. If you want to do the middle part together too, that’s the coaching day.
One-to-one coaching
CHF 7901 day · on the mountain · on your own or for two
A day tailored entirely to you: the talk the evening before, one-to-one guidance in the air and the debriefing in the evening. A few days later comes the follow-up with two or three exercises for your next flights.
Everything about it is on the offer page at https://streckenfliegen.com/en/angebot/#coaching
Who it’s for
A particularly good fit
- You want to make progress
- You have been flying for years and want to go beyond your previous best. The track shows how you decided on the day: where you circled, where you waited, when you set off. You can see a lot in it that helps you move on.
- You don’t know the area
- Valais once a year and every time the valley wind surprises you. A site briefing costs less than the lost day.
- You fly without me
- On the mountain you decide for yourself. Before and after, someone looks at it with you.
- You live too far away
- Both run online. For a briefing you don’t need to travel to Switzerland and for a debriefing even less so.
Not sure which of these suits you? Write to me with a sentence about where you stand right now. I’ll tell you what I would book in your place. Even if that means: nothing at all, fly a few more times first.