"The ARC will examine issues including the awareness and reporting of emotional and mental health issues, the methods used to evaluate pilot emotional and mental health, and barriers to reporting such issues.
"Based on the group's recommendations, the FAA may consider changes to medical methods, aircraft design, policies and procedures, pilot training and testing, training for Aerospace Medical Examiners, or potential actions that may be taken by professional, airline, or union groups. The ARC's meetings will not be open to the public," FAA said in a statement.
And after they have discovered that a perfectly healthy optimistic positive thinking pilot at entry to an airline has deteriorated into a nervous disturbed negative thinking pissed off employee who is angry at his bullying employer, and feeling betrayed by what was promised over many years, what then? Will the authorities then subject the culpable managers to equal scrutiny? This once again sounds like an easy cop-out of 'pilot error'. If there is an illness look for the root cause and treat the illness not the symptoms.