A Psychology Professor talking on Sky News this evening happend to mention about the new requirements for pilots to be mentally screened for unusual mental behaviours.
Would the new hire recruits be automatically deemed to have failed this test, by a normal recruiter, in the know, if these candidates applied here to the pit despite all the sensible advice given here?
Welcome to the place where you have to ask to pee and even before you go to briefing be ready to do the full drugs and alcohol testing process, just to earn a buck!
New hires from the lighter aircraft world are welcome I say, let them come and share the pain if it helps the poor sods here doing 1.5 times reasonable amount of work. (You get rostered for sim support here when you are at maximum hours and can't fly).
(edit) The suggestion from the professor is to look at your work colleagues around you and help the company and the medical teams to work out if someones personality is changeable. The way the system works here, you rarely bump into any colleagues at all when going to work and then only on 4 days a year in class, and that's only about 10 at a time, good to see the system works.
J