Mental Health For Pilots
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As Conflict Widens, Pilots Navigate Missiles, Drones And Mental Stress
Airline pilots have faced escalating risks in recent years, from drone incursions to flight paths squeezed by conflict. Now US-Israeli attacks on Iran are making the skies even more perilous and ratcheting up the pressure on those flying through them
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Airline Pilots Hide Mental Health Struggles To Continue Flying: Study
Commercial airline pilots often conceal mental health conditions for fear that disclosing therapy or medication, or even just seeking help, could mean having their license pulled, putting themselves and their passengers at risk.
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Germanwings Crash: New Rules Needed For Pilot Health Issues
Seeking to ensure that suicidal pilots can't crash their jets, French authorities investigating last year's Germanwings crash are urging new reporting requirements for doctors treating pilots, and new measures to keep pilots from hiding mental health issues.
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Germanwings Probe Seeks 'Clearer Rules' On Pilots' Mental Health
French investigators probing the Germanwings plane crash called on Sunday for "clearer rules" on the lifting of medical confidentiality if pilots show signs of psychological problems.
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Aviation Regulator Finalising Psychometric Test Norms for Pilots
As the government looks to make psychometric tests compulsory for pilots in the wake of the Germanwings crash, DGCA is preparing detailed norms including that for assessment of an individual's mental health at the time of joining a flying training school.
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After Germanwings Crash, Psychometric Tests Likely to be Made Mandatory for Pilots in India
The Government is likely to make psychometric test mandatory for assessing the mental health of pilots of domestic carriers, a move which comes against the backdrop of a Germanwings co-pilot deliberately crashing a plane in the Alps in March.
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Air India's Mental Health Test for Pilots Runs into Trouble
In the wake of the horrific German Wings plane crash in which 149 people died, Air India revamped its recruitment process for pilots to include evaluation of mental health. But the process has run into trouble, with the rejected candidates calling the system flawed and unscientific.
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After Germanwings Crash, Focus on Mental Health Checks for Indian Pilots
The "deliberate" crash of a Germanwings flight by its co-pilot last month has prompted a review of the system of assessing mental health of pilots in India.
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As Conflict Widens, Pilots Navigate Missiles, Drones And Mental Stress
Airline pilots have faced escalating risks in recent years, from drone incursions to flight paths squeezed by conflict. Now US-Israeli attacks on Iran are making the skies even more perilous and ratcheting up the pressure on those flying through them
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Airline Pilots Hide Mental Health Struggles To Continue Flying: Study
Commercial airline pilots often conceal mental health conditions for fear that disclosing therapy or medication, or even just seeking help, could mean having their license pulled, putting themselves and their passengers at risk.
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Germanwings Crash: New Rules Needed For Pilot Health Issues
Seeking to ensure that suicidal pilots can't crash their jets, French authorities investigating last year's Germanwings crash are urging new reporting requirements for doctors treating pilots, and new measures to keep pilots from hiding mental health issues.
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Germanwings Probe Seeks 'Clearer Rules' On Pilots' Mental Health
French investigators probing the Germanwings plane crash called on Sunday for "clearer rules" on the lifting of medical confidentiality if pilots show signs of psychological problems.
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Aviation Regulator Finalising Psychometric Test Norms for Pilots
As the government looks to make psychometric tests compulsory for pilots in the wake of the Germanwings crash, DGCA is preparing detailed norms including that for assessment of an individual's mental health at the time of joining a flying training school.
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After Germanwings Crash, Psychometric Tests Likely to be Made Mandatory for Pilots in India
The Government is likely to make psychometric test mandatory for assessing the mental health of pilots of domestic carriers, a move which comes against the backdrop of a Germanwings co-pilot deliberately crashing a plane in the Alps in March.
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Air India's Mental Health Test for Pilots Runs into Trouble
In the wake of the horrific German Wings plane crash in which 149 people died, Air India revamped its recruitment process for pilots to include evaluation of mental health. But the process has run into trouble, with the rejected candidates calling the system flawed and unscientific.
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After Germanwings Crash, Focus on Mental Health Checks for Indian Pilots
The "deliberate" crash of a Germanwings flight by its co-pilot last month has prompted a review of the system of assessing mental health of pilots in India.
