Group items tagged pilot career - General Aviation

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shared by Thomas Sullivan on 20 Feb 10 - Cached

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one of this airline's 'finest aviators' (aka flight qualified supervisors) known as a 'management pilot,' was put in charge of performing the equivalent of (or something close to) a mental status exam every month on pilots participating in the HIMS program
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At this airline, one of these REQUIRED monthly meetings between "management" (quotes used due to the fact that most managers at this airline have little to no actual management training) and the HIMS pilot COULD PUT HIS OR HER MEDICAL CERTIFICATE (read: career) AT JEOPARDY.
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shared by Thomas Sullivan on 22 Sep 09 - Cached

started by anonymous on 14 Feb 15 no follow-up yet

started by anonymous on 14 Feb 15 no follow-up yet

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"I’m an airline pilot-turned “alcoholic.”
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I made an unusually ‘non-alcoholic’ decision.
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The airline industry is quite literally awash in shameless, alcohol-fueled antics, some of which would rival most college campuses.
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Employee Assistance Program (EAP) called HIMS (Human Intervention Motivation Study)
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Should I have told the truth? Should others now tell the truth (at this airline, and industry wide) knowing that they could be destroying (and not ostensibly saving) their own careers?
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I was terminated by my airline in September of 2013.
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I made the decision to ‘pick the phone up,’ not fly intoxicated, and exchange my intact career for a chance at what was described by HIMS as,”…the right thing to do to salvage your career…,” not knowing then, what I know now, was a decision I would come to regret with increasing frequency.
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Unemployed (and now, unemployable)
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