Originally Posted by slats11
There is evidence that mandatory reporting drives problems underground - it discourages people seeking medical attention, and discourages people from being transparent with their physician. So it is a complex issue, and certainly no panacea.
It's been said before in this thread, but it is well worth repeating since policy making bodies often overlook this very human reaction to greater control/probing by "the system" into their lives.
6. He was too high functioning to be suffering from schizophrenia or another form of psychosis. Most likely a nasty personality disorder with narcissistic, sociopathic and borderline traits. Unfortunately these personality disorders are pretty common.
Heh, some decades ago one of our flight surgeons suggested that a few semi-undesirable traits, narcissism being the one he harped on that day, were common among Naval Aviators ... and he looked at us all for a moment before continuing "It makes sense, because it takes a healthy amount of ego to get into this business in the first place."
Yes, you guessed it: CRM was the topic of the day at that Safety Stand Down.
tmac21: that's my guess, as I go on the assumption that the Captain knew his aircraft and its systems.