335 Mental Health Issues: What Pilots Need to Know – with Dr. Victor Vogel + GA News
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🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Max talks with Dr. Victor Vogel about mental health issues and what pilots need to know when getting a pilot medical certificate. He also talks about how somatogravic illusion nearly brought down Southwest flight 2786, which nearly crashed while flying the missed approach at Lihue, Hawaii. He also discusses two fatal twin engine accidents that occurred this week in Colorado and New York.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever experienced a mental health issue of any kind? |
| 0:05.5 | And if you have, well, that's not unusual. |
| 0:07.9 | According to our guest, Dr. Victor Vogel, every year one in five of us has some sort of mental health symptoms because, as he said, that's what life does. |
| 0:16.6 | This is especially true when we go through life events, such as the death of a family member or a friend, a divorce, job loss, financial stress, and so on. |
| 0:24.9 | But how does that affect your chances of getting or keeping a pilot medical certificate? |
| 0:29.7 | Stick around and he'll tell you what you need to know. |
| 0:32.3 | Hello again and welcome to Aviation News Talk where we talk in general aviation. |
| 0:36.1 | My name is Max Trescott. |
| 0:37.3 | I've been flying for 50 |
| 0:38.2 | years. I'm the author of several books in the 2008 National Flight Instructor of the Year. |
| 0:42.8 | And my mission is to help you become the safest possible pilot. Last week at episode 334, |
| 0:49.1 | we talked with CFI John Fiscus about tips for CFIs and pilots for flying safely in the traffic pattern. |
| 0:55.9 | So if you didn't hear that episode, you may want to check it out at AviationNewsTalk.com |
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