Fit to Fly will assist you to discover your own tendency to deny reality and thus, through self-knowledge, to minimise its potential to reduce safety margins in critical situations. Fit to Fly also reinforces the concept of professionalism in aviation. The arguments are simple. Aviation is not yet a profession, and it should be. Trends in the mangement of professional practice increasingly focus on the concept of individual liability.
Pilots hold no less vicarious responsibility for passengers than do doctors for their patients.
It is inevitable that personal liability will eventually attach to pilots in the same way as it has to other professionals. Fit to Fly argues that for pilots to take the lead in organising their own professional structure is the only way to ensure satisfactory arrangements for control of the profession of aviation. It is increasingly likely that only pilots who follow prescriptions such as laid out in Fit to Fly will secure regard as being at the top of their profession. Apart from that, Fit to Fly has lots of terrific flying stories. It's a good read.