I would like to know the same symptoms they are using on wallstreet, car salesmen, appliance salesmen? any guesses?
Of course, appliance salesmen don't usually take a lot of folk with them if they are lethargic or not "on their game".
I'm not talking about intentional ditching a plane, I mean the danger of this is that they are not sharp, not focused on flying if they are in that mind state.
Worst case with a car salesman, you might get a good deal on a car if he is off his game.
Which is why this is one of the few occupations where I support unions.
I support unions in general for most occupations if not all.
When unions work as they should, they are a huge added value in many ways. Many think it just means lazy workers get overpaid, etc. it's an effective propaganda method for the ones that don't want workers to have a say. In reality it most often is also about working conditions, safety, best practices, and doing good work. In many instances it is also about public safety.
As a kid I read Mark Twains "Life on the Mississippi" and read about how difficult it was to learn to "read the river" skills (similar to a pilot, in fact also called a pilot!) and memorizing every inch of the Mississippi River...BUT...though much of the river stayed roughly the same, some parts could change very quickly, the status of the river, flow, sunken snags, horseshoe bends that finally cut through straight, or even, according to Twain it was not unheard of for a farmer to put a boulder somewhere and start rerouting the river towards his farm and away from the neighbors.
So after a while they formed a union. Since riverboat pilots were mostly contractual, the union wanted their members to be the best, safest, and expected compensation for that. They had lock boxes along the route where another Union member that had been that way (up or down river) wrote notes on status, changes, etc. so it didn't take long for the riverboat owners to think it was worth hiring these Union guys as they had the best chance of not sinking or stranding their river boats. They didn't initiate their own version I guess because it would mean cooperating with competitors.
Sorry for the long post, I just kinda liked the story. It was interesting. Twain also fealt after his time as a trainee river boat pilot that he could never quite look at a river just romantically, he would be seeing the flow, snags just under the surface, etc. etc. (it sort of ruined his innocence in a way).
