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For Pilots and Referring Partners
Please complete this form to refer a pilot to our HIMS Program or to request information regarding HIMS services.
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HIMS is the FAA pathway that lets a pilot get treatment and pursue recertification without losing the career behind the left seat. Lions Gate Recovery runs that pathway end to end, built to the standard the FAA actually uses, from the first confidential call to the day you return to the flight deck.
A Standard Rehab Treats the Person. A Pilot Needs a Program That Also Protects the Certificate.
Most treatment centers assess and document against DSM-5. The FAA does not. Under 14 CFR 67, the federal definitions of substance dependence and substance abuse are stricter than the clinical criteria a typical program applies, and documentation written to the wrong standard does not move a pilot toward recertification. It can stall the case or set it back.
At Lions Gate Recovery, every stage of care is built around the standards pilots are actually measured against:
Accurate diagnosis guides appropriate treatment. Some symptoms improve significantly after detox and stabilization. Others require ongoing therapeutic and possibly psychiatric intervention.
Structure and Accountability Are Not Our Slogan. They Are What HIMS Demands of You for the Next Eight Years.
Lions Gate Recovery was built by people in long-term recovery, with decades of combined sobriety among ownership. We do not run a spa, and we have never pretended recovery happens by being catered to. We run a structured, accountability-driven program because that is what produces real change.
That is also an exact description of HIMS. Random testing, regular reporting to an AME, peer support, years of monitoring that only ends when you have earned your way out. A pilot in HIMS does not need to be comfortable. They need a program that already operates the way the FAA is going to expect them to live, and that holds them to it without flinching. That alignment between how we work and what HIMS requires is the reason a pilot belongs here rather than at a center that treats the program as paperwork.
One Year to Your Medical. Eight Years of Monitoring. A Clear Map for Every Stage of It.
The route back is long, and it is fully defined. Treatment typically begins with inpatient care, steps down through an intensive outpatient program, and continues into aftercare, with regular reporting to your HIMS AME the entire way. Recovery for a pilot is not done in isolation either. You will work alongside other aviators in peer support built for this profession, including Birds of a Feather, the pilot-specific recovery groups led by people who have held the same job and faced the same fear of losing it.
From entering treatment to regaining your medical certificate generally takes about a year. After that, HIMS monitoring continues for roughly eight years and eases in intensity as you demonstrate sustained recovery, until you are released from the program. We provide the treatment and aftercare and coordinate with the people overseeing your case so nothing falls through a gap.
See the full breakdown on How the HIMS Process Works. Review what we treat under federal standards on Conditions Treated Under FAA Standards. If you are an AME, HIMS chair, or airline contact, start at For AMEs and Referring Professionals. If you are the spouse or family of a pilot, begin at For Families and Spouses of Pilots.
You do not have to wait for things to get worse.
