Aviation Health and Safety Research Library
Welcome to our health and wellness resource library for pilots and aviation professionals. This page brings together trusted third-party research, expert insights, and published articles focused on the mental and physical factors that shape safe, sustainable performance in aviation.
Each resource includes a brief summary to help you quickly understand its relevance, along with a link to the full study or article for deeper learning.
Aviator Healthcare Hesitance: An Examination
This article discusses three possible sources of fear regarding pilots’ health. It cites these reasons: pilot personality, financial considerations, and lack of trust. It further shows evidence that many pilots want to get help.
The Career Adaptability and Support Structures…
This study focuses on how commercial pilots who lose their medical certification cope with the career shock and navigate transitions in occupational identity and employment. The authors found that…
Healthcare avoidance in aircraft pilots due…
In this anonymous survey of 3,765 U.S. pilots, 56.1% reported a history of healthcare avoidance behavior specifically because they were concerned about the potential loss of their aeromedical certificate.
Dreaming of Flying When Grounded
The article investigates how job loss affects the occupational identity of a group of U.S. airline pilots who were furloughed twice during the decade following the 9/11 attacks.