Pretty much everything I have ever read about the FFDO program makes it seem as if the government intended to make it as difficult as possible for a pilot to have and use a pistol to defend himself and the aircraft. It's almost like they didn't really want to the program to work....howdy wrote:I was in the second Federal Flight Deck Officer class back in August of 2003 (I am retired now so I can publicly say this). We too had to have a psych eval. There was ONE shrink in Houston that was approved by the Feds for the entire state of Texas. Everyone from Texas applying for this program had to use this gentleman. He was a gun friendly Psychologist and the evaluation was fairly straight forward. We also took the standard psych written test. California also had only one shrink for the entire state, and that person WAS NOT gun friendly. Almost everyone going before him/her was rejected for the program. I was a former Military Pilot with a nuclear mission and it struck me as kind of ironic when the shrink asked if I thought I could kill someone.
