Something to make flying a little more appealing.

[TalkingDog]

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100915report_serious_baggage_for_pilots/srvc=home&position=0

Oh... did I say appealing? What I meant to say was:



Hundreds of commercial and private U.S. pilots have been diagnosed and treated for a broad array of serious psychiatric and medical conditions, including schizophrenia, attempted suicide, sexual deviance, alcoholism and drug abuse, a Herald review has found.

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15 pilots - including one from Massachusetts - have been treated for or diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Another 292 pilots have attempted suicide, including five Bay Staters.
2,700 pilots have been treated for alcohol abuse, including 34 from Massachusetts, and another 1,253 have been diagnosed as alcoholics - including 20 Bay Staters.
1,377 pilots have been treated for drug abuse - 23 from Massachusetts - and another 94 for drug dependence.
87 were treated or diagnosed with sexual deviation, which includes pedophilia, voyeurism and fetishism.
23 pilots, including one from the Bay State, have been treated or diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, 80 for major affective disorders, including bipolar disorder, and two others for paranoia.

[ZombieHorde]

1. What is sexual deviance and why would it affect flying?

Is sexual deviance an attraction to plane crashes?

[TalkingDog]

2. I have no idea. There are people who are sexually attracted to inanimate objects.

Some even marry them..... don't ask....


But the suicidal pilots are the ones that concern me.

[flamin lib]

3. I knew a pilot who worked

for A major Airline whose fantasy was to fly the Dallas-LA route at 500 feet. He said if the airline ever found out he;d be selling hot dogs from a cart.

"Ladies and gentlemen this your Captain speaking, If you look out the left window you will see the Grand Ca . . . never mind."