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For Pilots and Referring Partners
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The spouse is usually the first to see it, and the first to feel trapped by it. HIMS is the FAA pathway that lets a pilot get treatment and keep flying, and Lions Gate Recovery walks the whole family through what coming forward actually means before anyone makes a decision they cannot take back.
You see it more clearly than anyone, because you live with it. You also know what his certificate means to this family, which is why raising it feels impossible. Push too hard and you could be the reason the career ends. Stay quiet and you carry the drinking, the diagnosis, the close calls, and the fear of the phone ringing one day with the worst kind of news. Most spouses sit in that bind for a long time, telling themselves it is not bad enough yet to risk everything.
Here is what is worth knowing before you decide anything. Coming forward is not what ends a pilot’s career. Getting caught is. The pilots who lose everything are usually the ones who waited until a DUI or an incident took the choice away from them. There is a defined path that treats the problem and protects the career at the same time, and the family does not have to figure it out alone.
The fear underneath your silence is that treatment and flying cannot coexist. They can. The FAA created HIMS for exactly this situation, a structured route through treatment and back to the flight deck that thousands of pilots have completed. It is real, it is defined, and it is built on the premise that a pilot who gets honest help can fly again.
Lions Gate Recovery runs that pathway. We treat the substance use and the conditions that often sit beneath it, document to the FAA aeromedical standards that a pilot’s case depends on, and provide the full continuum of care HIMS requires under one program. What you are looking at is not the end of his career. It is the one route that gives the career a future and gives your family a real recovery instead of another round of promises.
The path takes time, and we will be honest with you about that. Treatment generally moves from inpatient care into an intensive outpatient program and then into aftercare, with the route back to his medical certificate typically taking about a year, followed by a longer monitoring phase that eases over time. We will not pretend it is quick or easy, because it is neither, and you have heard enough easy promises already.
What we can tell you is that the structure is the point. Lions Gate Recovery was built by people in long-term recovery, and we run an accountability-driven program rather than a comfortable one, because comfort is not what brings someone back. For the family, that means a process you can actually trust, real communication about how he is doing, and recovery built to hold once treatment ends rather than fall apart the moment he comes home.
You do not have to wait for things to get worse.
