William Hoffman in Podcasts

Hoffman was one of them. The group delivered 24 suggestions to lower the barriers to mental health access. And they presented these suggestions to the FAA last year, in April of 2024. And a few were acted on really quickly.

I asked William Hoffman, that researcher, what we know about having mental health problems that you're treating, that you're addressing, or something that was on your record from the past. What do we know about how that impacts risk? And here's what he told me.

I talked with William Hoffman. He's a neurologist and an aviation medical researcher. And he and his team have been trying to figure out how the FAA's protocols impact the decisions pilots are making about their health. In 2019, Hoffman and his team launched a survey of over 3,500 pilots across North America.