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The Pilot’s Dilemma to “Get Help or Keep Your Job”: How Federal Law Creates a Lack of Access to Pilots’ Mental Health Care
April 16, 2024By Rosanne Sherman
There is an elephant in the cockpit. Pilots have described the elephant as “at best humiliating or embarrassing, at worst the end of our flying careers.”[i] The “elephant” is mental illness, which the general public has universally stigmatized. There is an increasing number of pilots flying while suffering from an untreated mental illness that […]
