Federal authorities have been probing roughly 5,000 pilots suspected of withholding major health issues that could imperil their ability to fly safely::Nearly 600 of the pilots who are being investigated have licenses to fly the general public on passenger airlines, according to The Washington Post.
This marketable skill you spent years building, you can’t use it anymore, you’re fucked, goodbye. That’s a hard sell. Getting people to volunteer to become unemployed is a really hard sell.
If we had real social safety nets, where being unemployed isn’t dreadful, we might reduce the rates.
But this is definitely a sector of trust but verify, that’s why you have third-party doctors actually do the verification. Yes people withhold things that the doctors can’t see immediately, but that’s human nature