A small organisation, built around one idea: nobody should transition through aviation alone.
Squawk Foundation began as a private group of pilots, cabin crew, ATCOs, dispatchers, engineers and instructors who kept finding each other in the same difficult conversations — about burnout, lost medicals, downgrades, training debt, and the strange grief of leaving a cockpit, a cabin or a tower behind. We made this place so the conversation has a door.
What we do
- · Curate a knowledge base on career transition and crisis.
- · Publish anonymous, lightly edited stories from the industry.
- · Signpost vetted, aviation-aware counselors and peer groups.
- · Maintain practical self-support tools and reading lists.
What we are not
- · A regulator, an employer, or a union.
- · A replacement for therapy or emergency care.
- · A reporting channel for safety or operational concerns.
- · A place that asks for your name unless you offer it.
How we hold the room.
Anonymous by default
You decide what to share, with what name, at what time. Identifying details are softened before anything is published.
Community care, not corporate care
No badges, no KPIs, no funnels. Just people from the line writing for the people still on it — and the ones stepping off.
Professional support when it matters
Self-help has a ceiling. We maintain pathways to licensed therapists who understand crew rosters, medicals, and the texture of aviation life.
Plain language
No jargon dressed up as wisdom. We write the way colleagues talk to each other after a long day.