VECTOR AERO GROUP
HUMAN PERFORMANCE
PRECISION-ENGINEERED
Your operations are only as resilient as the people running them.
ADAPTIVE EVIDENCE-BASED RESILIENCE OPTIMIZATION
HUMAN PERFORMANCE
PRECISION-ENGINEERED
Your operations are only as resilient as the humans running them.
MAINTAIN YOUR EDGE
The gap
We ground aircraft that show stress cracks.
Yet we reward humans who do.
ABOUT
THE RESILIENCE GAP
The aviation workforce doesn't have a training problem. It has a resilience problem.
With over twenty years experience in aviation, I watched incredibly skilled, deeply committed professionals barely surviving their careers instead of living their lives. Not because they lacked training, but because their nervous system was running a program that training alone can't fix. They were writing checks their bodies couldn't cash.
That's the gap Vector AERO Group exists to close. We work with the entire aviation workforce, from the breakroom to the boardroom, using evidence-based tools that build real, lasting nervous system resilience. Not motivation. Not positive self-talk or willpower. Regulation. The kind that improves long term performance.
Regina Arras is an aerospace engineer, human performance strategist, and the founder of Vector AERO Group — a human performance consultancy dedicated to building adaptive, resilient aviation workforces through evidence-based nervous system regulation.
WHO WE SERVE
PERFORM THROUGH PRESSURE
Every role in aviation operates under pressure.
Every person in aviation deserves the tools to perform through it.
01 // FRONTLINE
WORKFORCE
Pilots. Mechanics. Controllers. Flight Attendants. Dispatchers. Gate and Ground Ops. Airport Ops. Every person who keeps this industry running and has been told that pushing through is the job.
02 // COMMAND
LEADERSHIP
Directors. VPs. C-Suite. Your nervous system state is not a personal matter. It is an organizational input. A chronically activated leader sets the stress baseline for their entire team. Regulated leadership changes organizational outcomes.
03 // SYSTEM
ORGANIZATIONS
HR. Safety. Operations. Chronic nervous system activation is driving your absenteeism, your turnover, your disability claims, and your error rates. This is risk mitigation with a documented return.
This work extends beyond commercial carriers. MROs, business & corporate aviation.
Same pressure, same stakes. Let's talk.
THE METHODOLOGY
THE D.A.M.N. PROCESS™
Trust the D.A.M.N. ProcessTM. It works.
D
DEFINE
Identify and name what's happening in your body. Not the situation, not the stressor - the state. Activation has a signature. You can't regulate what you haven't recognized. With repetition, this awareness sharpens until noticing becomes automatic.
A
ASSESS
Evaluate the degree, the trigger, and the context. This is your internal situational awareness - reading the instruments when the environment is demanding. Each iteration refines the read - faster, more precise, more honest about what's actually happening internally.
M
MARSHAL
Deploy the tools. This is where the neurological retraining actually occurs. Evidence-based regulation tools interrupt the sympathetic response at the physiological level. Every application builds new neural architecture.
N
NAVIGATE
Execute from a regulated state. With the nervous system no longer running interference, you move decisively and precisely. With each completed cycle, regulation becomes faster, more accessible, more default. Navigate is where performance happens and where resilience compounds.
Built for the pressure of aviation. From the flightline to the front office.
THE RESULTS
OPERATIONAL OUTCOMES
Operationally proven risk mitigation with a documented return.
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FEWER CALLOUTS & SICK DAYS
Reduced absenteeism and presenteeism through sustained nervous system regulation.
$225.8 billion in annual productivity loss linked to absenteeism across US employers. (CDC Foundation)
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BETTER DECISIONS UNDER PRESSURE
Improved cognitive bandwidth and situational awareness during high-stress operational scenarios.
EFT reduces cortisol by 43%, restoring the cognitive functions aviation depends on. (Stapleton et al., 2020 RCT)
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TEAMS THAT thrive WHEN IT'S HARD
Enhanced interpersonal cohesion and fluid communication when operational demands peak.
A regulated leader sets the physiological baseline for the entire team. (Polyvagal Theory, Porges)
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LOWER TURNOVER, LOWER COST
Decreased turnover and replacement costs as experienced people stay - and stay regulated.
75–300% of annual salary to replace one aviation professional. (Retensa 2026 / Embry-Riddle)
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STRONGER CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
Regulated teams perform differently in every customer interaction with measurable gains in NPS and satisfaction scores.
5% drop in customer satisfaction linked to high turnover in aviation. (Cornell University)
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REDUCED SAFETY INCIDENTS
Regulated decision-making reduces the human factors variable behind the majority of aviation safety events.
80% of aviation accidents involve human factors. (FAA / HFACS)
Science-backed, measurable improvements when regulation becomes the Standard Operating Procedure.
ready to Recalibrate?
Performance work for professionals who are
done managing around the problem and ready to address it at the source.
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