I’m a 29 year old Canadian man. At the age of 15, I was diagnosed with OCD. By the age of 18, my OCD was so awful that I attempted suicide over it. Ever since then, my mental health has been mixed, at best. And I have a long history of alcohol and DXM addiction.
Recently, I heard the story of Navy SEAL Adam Brown, who, just like me, was an addict. He ended up sticking a knife into his own neck at one point and had an impressive rap sheet. Still, he recovered, and he became a SEAL.
I’m actually totally open to the possibility that I won’t ever be able to fly at all. I’ve made peace with that a while ago, and I have a bunch of other career interests that I want to pursue! So I guess I’m lucky in that sense. If Transport Canada tells me “no” then I’ll be fine with it. But it’ll be even better if I can make this work. This is my childhood dream!
Hey kuddos to you brother.
I’m a private pilot and professionally an air traffic controller.
If, for reasons, the corporate world of aviation doesn’t want you that doesn’t mean you can’t fly.
A VFR PPL is a legit simple way of flying, but out of your own pockets and not a career (ultra light is even cheaper and those ULM are getting crazy good).
I know plenty of small executives charter companies that will recruit anyone to fly their citation or pilatus. Granted that those are shit employers that abuse the young licenced pilots but that a job in aviation 🤷🏻♂️
I also know a “self made entrepreneur pilot” that is hella happy. He created his own ferry flight company, so he delivers a new or 2nd hand bought plane from the seller to the buyer. This can be dangerous tho as you might be asked to deliver an old piper archer II from rural America to Europe. It’s your job to figure it out and do it as safely as possible (as you are the PIC so if anything happens well, you are the one in a bright orange survival outfit in the Atlantic).
Or another one that flew helicopters for oil platforms companies and ended up flying the fire fighters helicopter during the fire season.
Anyway, just to say, there are plenty of jobs in aviation, not only being a ATPL Airbus pilot for whatever company so do not lose hope o7
Excellent reasons: Germanwings Flight 9525. 150 dead due to murder-suicide by first officer by crashing an airliner mid-flight.
But as you say, other adjacent jobs available.
Well yeah I know.
We get the same kind of treatment at ATC and it makes me kinda laugh. How can we crash an aircraft? There are 2 pilots on board that want to get home after a long day at work and will simply say “unable, sir I can see the Mont-Blanc right in front of us, go fuck yourself and here is my report” (and I’m not even talking about the ton of electronic safety that are on the ground and on board airliners).
I said some reasons because OP is not thinking badly about life anymore, or maybe not I don’t know and there are plenty of other reasons to not receive a class 1 medical.
I just think that it’s not because you did something at 16 that it should ruin your life at 30.
