Pilot Mental Health Campaign

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Help Us Rethink Mental Health in Aviation ✈️

A team of graduate students from the University of Washington exploring how pilots experience and approach mental health and how AI tools might support wellbeing in aviation.

We’re inviting pilots to take a short 2-3 minute screener survey to help us understand your background and determine eligibility for a follow-up interview.

Your insights can help shape how mental health is understood, supported, and talked about across aviation. All responses will remain confidential and anonymous.

👉 Take the survey: https://t.co/KG5vKD4JWW

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✈️ The veteran community has long served as a backbone of America’s aviation community.

Today, PMHC extends its deepest gratitude to all veterans for their service. We are incredibly fortunate to have so many veterans within our own ranks, serving as rockstar volunteers. Thank you for your service.

Since our founding, highlighting veteran issues—especially those related to aeromedical certification—has been a core priority in our advocacy work with Congress. While there is still much to accomplish, PMHC is always proud to advocate for those who have selflessly sacrificed so much for us. #safetynotstigma #veteransday

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56% of pilots hide medical issues.
That’s a safety problem — not a pilot problem.

We’re working to fix the system with the Mental Health in Aviation Act & Aviation Medication Transparency Act.

Help us get it through the Senate:
💸 Donate to PMHC to support safer skies at https://t.co/DnEdD4OAg8

#safetynotstigma

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Day 28.

We continue to ask America’s “Best and Brightest” to perform one of the most demanding, high-stakes jobs in the world—without pay.

Yet through it all, the professionalism of our Air Traffic Controllers never falters.

Financial strain is a well-documented source of stress, and stress on top of stress is unsustainable. We cannot expect these professionals to safeguard the traveling public while running on empty.

It’s time to value their dedication. Pay our controllers.

#safetynotstigma #endtheshutdown #payourairtrafficcontrollers

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International Day of the Air Traffic Controller Day. Today, in the United States, instead of recognition, controllers are wondering when their next paycheck will come.

How can we expect ATC to keep us safe doing one of the hardest, stressful, and most mentally taxing jobs and not pay them? These essential workers deserve to be paid during a government shutdown just like congress gets paid. Stop stretching our controllers further than they already are and PAY THEM! #safetynotstigma #payATC

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Local to Chicago?

Join us for a Spaghetti Pizza (& Spaghetti) fundraising night at @pauliegeeslogansquare on November 11!

Not local or can't make it? You can still help us reach our $75K Senate goal by donating at https://t.co/DnEdD4OAg8 #Safetynotstigma #chicagopizza #chicagomentalhealth #mentalhealth

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At NBAA?? So are we!! Stop by booth 659 and chat! #safetynotstigma

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This World Mental Health Day, we’d like to remind you that FAA mental health policies should not be so difficult to navigate that some aviation professionals take their own lives. However, dozens do.

It does not need to be this way. All of us at PMHC are passionate about changing the system and the stigma surrounding mental health. The Mental Health in Aviation Act is just the beginning, but the first step is the most important step to create change.

Please donate so we can help fellow aviators by breaking the stigma and creating lasting change.

Remember, you are not alone.

https://t.co/DnEdD4OAg8 #safetynotstigma
#worldmentalhealthday

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The current aviation mental health system presents pilots and air traffic controllers with unfair and scary choices. No one should have to chose their job over their life, especially not while simultaneously being expected to keep the flying public safe.

The Mental Health in Aviation Act is the first step in fixing the systemic issues pilots and ATC face. Help us help EVERYONE, https://t.co/DnEdD4OAg8. #safetynotstigma

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Every day, pilots fly haunted...not by ghosts, but by fear.

Fear of being grounded.
Fear of stigma.
Fear of saying, “I need help.”

This Halloween, the real horror isn’t turbulence, it’s silence.

Help us beat the stigma and reach our $75,000 goal to support the Mental Health in Aviation Act through the Senate. We got the bill through the House with your overwhelming support and donations but, we have so far to go and a very large financial barrier to overcome. As an all volunteer organization, every penny counts! https://t.co/DnEdD4OAg8 #safetynotstigma

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#endtheshutdown #safetynotstigma

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Deep in the shadowy halls of bureaucracy lies a ghost that pilots know all too well, fear of disclosure.

For decades, the FAA’s silence has echoed louder than any engine roar. Pilots whisper about it in crew rooms, haunted by the thought that admitting to anxiety, depression, or burnout could ground them forever.

Instead of safety, this fear breeds silence. Instead of treatment, it breeds torment. Mental health avoidance has become the monster no one dares to face.

Help PMHC change the narrative. October brings our push to get the Mental Health in Aviation Act through the Senate and we need YOU to help us fundraise!

https://t.co/DnEdD4OAg8 #safetynotstigma

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Recently, so many of you have been asking how to help progress the Mental Health in Aviation Act through the Senate. The most helpful thing right now is donations. We are starting all over with fundraising for the Senate push so every penny you can donate counts. #SafetyNotStigma

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Thanks to the generosity of Latino Professionals in Aerospace, you can find PMHC at the LPA Expo! Stop by booth 218 and find out how to get involved in reforming aviation mental health. #safetynotstigma

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525: the number of days for the Pilot Mental Health Campaign to bring the Mental Health in Aviation Act from idea to bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.

However, some aviators are waiting 700+ days for FAA medical decisions... Grounded. Stressed. In limbo. Pilots shouldn’t have to suffer in silence or put their dreams on hold for years due to bureaucracy.

Change is possible and change is necessary.

#SafetyNotStigma

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525 Days.

From April 2024 to September 2025, that’s how long it took The Pilot Mental Health Campaign to champion the Mental Health in Aviation Act through the U.S. House of Representatives.

"An act of Congress," a phrase often used lightly, literally happened in less time than it takes for an aviator who began the SSRI protocol on April 1, 2024, to receive medical clearance.

The House voted unanimously to support this straightforward bill - meanwhile, hundreds of aviators have been left waiting more than 525 days for their medical review. #safetynotstigma

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World Suicide Prevention Day is a time to remember those impacted by suicide, raise awareness, and refocus on ways to help those currently in need.

If you or someone you know is struggling, here are some non-reportable resources. #safetynotstigma

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This article on the Mental Health in Aviation act from CNN‘s Pete Muntean is a very digestible explanation on the, otherwise complicated, 10 page bill. Thanks, Pete!

https://t.co/43gniO8hMf

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Advocating for the Mental Health in Aviation Act isn’t over yet. All of our hard work has led us to the Senate. So, let’s do it all over again but this time, let’s be even more vocal, more supportive, and let’s reach out to even more senators.

What is the easiest way to help the ALL volunteer, non-profit, grassroots effort, that introduced this wonderful piece of legislation, AND had it get through the house unanimously in record time? Donate at https://t.co/6tkHXP72e6 #safetynotstigma