> If you're competent enough to be a pilot you're competent enough to make money other ways

I believe an experienced commercial pilot makes around 200K? If I’m 50 have no professional skills except being a commercial airline pilot, what kind of work do I qualify for that has comparable pay?

> The issue is losing the level of income they make (more than any safety net could pay)

Why can’t this be solved by a tool like insurance? It only needs to cover something like like 80% of the career earnings of people who would be removed for mental health reasons up to the mandatory retirement age of 67, minus early retirement benefits if any.

Unless they are a huge number of pilots that would be removed for mental reasons, it seems affordable to me.