Imagine your adrenalin is being excited by the roar of the 747 engines as you thunder down the runway on take off. If just after 'lift off' there was a sudden hush from those massive engines, your heart would be in your mouth, pumping as it had never done before. Your white knuckles would be the result of clutching the arm rest or the person next to you with the power of a vice as you thought you were about to die before your time.
All those things you should have done. Here you are in a 747 that thinks it is an injured butterfly, floundering down to earth except this one has up to 150,000 litres (150 cubic metres ) of aviation fuel in its belly, waiting to burst into life.
My terrifying book is not fiction but what could have happened, as Qantas cleared me to fly after I told them of my compulsive disorder to shut down all four engines. I flew until I couldn't stand the terror any more, as take off was now my brain's desired time to strike.
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Leading Australian psychiatrist Dr. J. Phillips stated:
On my evaluation Mr. Griffin experienced a worsening of his symptoms
generally as a consequence of QANTAS expecting him to continue flying and failing to organise appropriate medical retirement.
Read his report   Click Here
Do you wonder if an airline that can't take care
oftheirpilots has a similar attitude in the way it services you and/or their aircraft?
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Why would an airline clear a pilot to fly with this psychiatrist report? Qantas did .
This man now has a neurotic phobic anxiety reaction which has been in acute form for 5 years and has become markedly worse for the last 4 or 5 days. It is likely that this disorder will continue without treatment and that he will experience further panic attacks similar to the one he had on the flight last Friday. Those symptoms could be relieved by anxiety controlling drugs but these may effect his ability to fly and therefore would be no answer while on duty.
Read this diagnosis
Why would an airline clear a pilot to fly with this psychiatrist report? Qantas did.
In summary there is no doubt that he presents a case of phobic anxiety state, a fairly common neurosis
Read this diagnosis
Air Navigation Orders state:(1980) 3.3 Mental fitness
(a) The applicant shall have no established medical history or clinical diagnosis of either of the following.
(i) a psychosis
(ii) any personality disorder severe enough to have repeatedly resulted in evert acts.
(2) The applicant shall have no established medical history or clinical diagnosis of a mental abnormality,
personality disorder, neurosis,
alcoholism or drug dependence which makes it likely that within two years of the examination, he will be unable to safely exercise the privileges of the licence or the rating applied for or held.
The Qantas doctor was an approved medical examiner of airmen and I consider he broke the Air Navigation Orders by renewing my licence.
Don't put your head in the sand. It's YOUR life, not theirs.
Ask them if they know of any other pilots with a mental illness. YES  
If you can get an answer from them please send it to me.
If you can't, when booking a flight think of 'Bryan Griffin' and
and wonder if another Qantas pilot could be like me and allowed to fly.( Yes he was)
Here it is in black and white. Would you have wanted to fly with me?
If so then Bon voyage. If not, support the sponsor of this site. It's your call.
Phone Qantas with your thoughts on their duty of care.
Pilot suicide does happen.
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In 2000 a Qantas solicitor threatened me with legal action if I didn't remove my web site. They couldn't argue with the truth then, nor can they now?
Read his letter
See graph of chain of events.
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