{"id":102003,"date":"2025-08-28T00:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T00:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102003\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T00:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T00:14:06","slug":"theres-been-progress-for-pilots-mental-health-since-the-rehearsal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102003\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s been progress for pilots’ mental health since The Rehearsal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nathan Fielder still hasn\u2019t been invited to testify about airline safety on Capitol Hill, but the comedian\/registered airline pilot logged a win in congress this summer anyway. Fielder spent the second season of his groundbreaking HBO show The Rehearsal<\/a> advocating for his theory that improved cockpit communication could drastically decrease airline crash rates. (He did so, of course, in a way only he could. Gigantic airport sets, Canadian Idol<\/a>, and Evanescence<\/a> were involved.)<\/p>\n

In June, a month after the season ended, the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure voted to approve the Mental Health in Aviation Act, a bipartisan bill that would encourage pilots to disclose mental health conditions, something that factored heavily into Fielder\u2019s show. As the comedian exhibited, pilots are currently hesitant to speak out when they\u2019re going through something for fear of losing their jobs. The new bill, however, would allocate $13.7M per year partly to hire psychiatrists and other professional counselors to help change this pattern. John Goglia, the former National Transportation Safety Board member who was featured in the show, thinks Fielder could have had something to do with it.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the show aired, John texted me and said that a bill that\u2019s been stuck in the House for years about pilot mental health finally went through and was passed, and went to the Senate, and he was talking to the young staffers, and he said, \u2018I think the show pushed them to [do it],’\u201d Fielder shared during a recent Writer\u2019s Guild panel, per Deadline<\/a>. \u201cI guess the young people make all the decisions. He\u2019s like, \u2018That\u2019s how it works.\u2019 Anyway, I don\u2019t know if it did anything, but it was nice to hear. That\u2019s the most recent update.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fielder has been on this particular crusade, one which saw him call the FAA \u201cdumb\u201d in a widely shared CNN interview<\/a>, for years now. According to the trade, he started taking flying lessons before even pitching the idea to HBO\u2014a stunt that paid off in spades<\/a> in the show\u2019s brilliant season finale<\/a>. \u201cI noticed this thing that would happen in [Canadian series Mayday] a lot. They reenact plane crashes and talk about why they happened. I started to notice this thing that was always happening, where the co-pilot would know what the issue was, but would be too afraid to or intimidated to speak up to the captain or take over the controls,\u201d Fielder shared. \u201cFor like 10 years, I was just telling people this at parties. Then when I was thinking about the second season, I had that idea, and I thought that would be really good.\u201d Good enough, maybe, to win him an Emmy<\/a>. Even if he doesn\u2019t, the bill passing is a pretty sweet victory.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Is Nathan Fielder’s directing in The Rehearsal just crazy enough to win an Emmy?<\/a>Nathan Fielder delivers his greatest twist to date in The Rehearsal’s season 2 finale<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan Fielder still hasn\u2019t been invited to testify about airline safety on Capitol Hill, but the comedian\/registered airline…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-102003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}