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!
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.