Mr Prouse: Good evening Sir.
I posted my views here just before I discovered yours.
Your survival during a year in a Very Bad Place and your subsequent recovery earned my respect years ago: not just the fact that you earned all of your ratings, beginning with the Private Pilot license from scratch.
This was posted before I saw your name (to my great surprise):
Many on Pprune are surprisingly ignorant of the fact that a number of pilots with a drinking problem can (if done correctly), with the quiet support of many airlines, return to the c0ckpit. The NAPAP volunteers have a difficult job, from what I can tell.
This is a very clear indication that said Ppruners have no close contacts with working airline pilots, by whom they might become enlightened.
Many years ago at some airlines, the lack of a confidential, complex program which allows some to return to flying, gave some pilots absolutely No incentive to deal with the problem in a progressive way. This gave pilots a very strong incentive to tell nobody.
You never stick your head up if it will be knocked off, in the professional sense.
Many are still in the Dark Ages and believe, as stated by someone else, that alcoholism is a character fault. Dark Age thinking, as with our friends the Taliban. Some have a genetic predisposition.
Last edited by Ignition Override; 8th Sep 2007 at 04:17.