New Rule: People suffering from psychological maladies are not allowed to pilot commercial airlines.

I’m empathetic with people who suffer such, but we give tremendous power-over-others’-lives to pilots.

Pilot are NOT given psychological testing or evaluations. This needs to change. I was shocked at this. I think there are just some jobs that should have advanced and thorough psyche exams. Not that we really know how to evaluate everything, but something is better than nothing.

When they apply, they take some kind of simple personality test, and that’s that. There are no formal psyche exams.

reuters.com