RAeS Washington DC Branch Webinar|Fit to Fly: Pilot Mental Health, Aviation Safety, and Security

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­How can aviation better support pilot mental health while maintaining and enhancing safety and security?

Join the Royal Aeronautical Society, Washington, D.C. Branch for a multidisciplinary online panel bringing together perspectives in aviation psychology, airline operations, law, and pilot advocacy. Drawing on US, UK, and European perspectives, the panel will consider where changes in policy and practice could help pilots access support and return safely to flight, and where governments and airlines might be able to share securely and act responsibly with respect to information about pilot mental health.

 Tuesday, November 10, 2026 | 10–11:30 a.m. ET

Online via Microsoft Teams

Webinar - Please register below. 
Link will be sent to you a day before the event.

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Moderator:

Ken Quinn FRAeS Principal, International Aviation Law, PLLC.  Counsel to the DC Branch.

Participants:

Capt. Jason Ambrosi, Delta Air Lines.    President, Air Line Pilots Association, Int'l (ALPA)

Marc Atherton, CPSychol, MRAeS. Registered Aviation Psychologist. Chair, Royal Aeronautical Society Human Factors and Mental Health Specialist Groups.

Ken Quinn

Principal, International Aviation Law, PLLC. Ken Quinn is Counsel to the DC Branch and was recently appointed to the Council of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Ken is the former FAA Chief Counsel and General Counsel, Flight Safety Foundation. 

Captain Jason Ambrosi

As the twelfth president of the Air Line Pilots Association, Int'l (ALPA), Capt. Jason Ambrosi (Delta) leads the world's largest airline pilot union and nongovernmental aviation safety organization, representing more than 80,000 airline pilots in the United States and Canada. 

Marc Atherton

Marc Atherton is a highly experienced UK and EU Chartered Psychologist. He is an accredited European Aviation Psychologist and holds a UK Health Care Professional Council Accreditation as a Practitioner Psychologist. As the Chair of the Human Factors Mental Health Specialist Groups at the UK Royal Aeronautical Society, he has been strongly promoting and advocating for safety critical groups mental health and wellbeing in the global aviation sector since 2016.

Gerard Forlin

Gerard Forlin KC is one of the UK’s most highly regarded barristers with specialism in civil, criminal and commercial litigation, including crisis management, health and safety, and aviation matters. Gerard practices from Cornerstone Barristers in London and State Chambers in Sydney. 

Captain Houston Mills

As President of Flight Operations, Captain Houston Mills is responsible for ensuring safe, reliable, and operational excellence of one of the world’s largest cargo airlines. Before assuming his current role, Houston served as UPS’s Global Aviation Strategy & Public Policy Director.

In 2024, Houston was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to the FAA Management Advisory Council (MAC). Houston serves on the Airspace Defense Board of Advisors, the Board of Governors of the Flight Safety Foundation, the Cargo Airline Association Board of Directors, and the Embry‑Riddle Center for Aviation/Aerospace Safety Advisory Board. 

Dr. Quay Snyder, MD

Dr. Quay Snyder is the Chairman of the Aerospace Medicine Association’s Aviation Mental Health Committee and CEO of the International Peer Assist Aviation Coalition.  He is the Program Manager for the HIMS program for substance use disorders in aviation.

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The Royal Aeronautical Society is the world’s only professional body dedicated to the entire aerospace community. Established in 1866 to further the art, science and engineering of aeronautics, the Society has been at the forefront of developments in aerospace ever since. The Washington DC Branch was launched in 2003.