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Re:The $20 an hour Cessna 172 experiment by nimish on Thursday February 09, 2023 @04:47PM (#34732005)
Just about everyone who has ever undergone psychiatric care cannot ever get a medical. There is technically a process but it is extremely difficult and expensive.

Some conditions are uniformly disqualifying, for good reasons. But it results in a perverse situation where a regular person can choose to either get mental health care or fly, but not both.

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Re:The $20 an hour Cessna 172 experiment by rkochman on Friday February 10, 2023 @11:31PM (#34749594)
People also choose to lie to the FAA.
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Re:The $20 an hour Cessna 172 experiment by madrush2014 on Saturday February 11, 2023 @01:15PM (#34754708)
I know reality is sometimes different from official policy, but for the record, straight from the horse's mouth:

https://www.faa.gov/pilot-mental-fitness

For me it's completely moot. I can't even have someone else fly me anymore--I have an (apparently untreatable) eustachian tube dysfunction.

...which is probably for the best given my bearish position on aviation.

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