1261 days to go!

[xkuzme1]

I do feel better today! Things are the back the way they should be. I wont be taken advantage of any longer by my fellow pilots. The only people that will take advantage of my will me my airline!

X

 

[list2002]

I guess you don't work at United.

 

[Flybywire44]

The 5 year anniversary is still 10+ hours behind us!

http://www.timeanddate.com/countdow...month=12&day=13&year=2012&hour&min&sec&p0=179

 

[doh]

Happy Trails Geezers!!! Don't let the door...

 

[GINCHBLASTER]

I say let it hit them! GTFO!!

 

[Quiet Flight]

Glorious day it is!

Hit the road Old Timers. Enjoy your Metamucil!

 

[Big Slick]

About F-ing Time!!!!

I've been watching this thread for 5 long years!!

Hit the road old-timers!!!!

 

[Coool Hand Luke]

My office overlooks DFW airport. I've seen the ARFF fire truck salute already 3-times this morning. I hope the ARFF guys topped off the diesel and the water tanks, they will be plenty busy...

 

[Salukipilot4590]

It's been a long time coming!

 

[SWA/FO]

Goodbye bitches.

 

[PBRstreetgang]

I do feel better today! Things are the back the way they should be. I wont be taken advantage of any longer by my fellow pilots. The only people that will take advantage of my will me my airline!

X

The baton/corncob has been handed down, it is without any doubt that you will use that corncob liberally and most likely wrap it with barbed wire before you jam it into the #2 orifice of the next generation of pilots, it is the way of the airline pilot!
Ya all are pathetic, enjoy your bitter fruit, and no I am nowhere near 55 or much less 65, I still have a career left in this industry, and for that I am sad.

 

[bladeusa]

Na Na Na Na
Na Na Na Na
Hey Hey Hey
Goodbye

 

[zippy32]

Thanks to those who have kept this post going for the last 5 years. Congrats to all of us! Now geazers, GTFO!

 

[HA25]

anyone else see the irony in the timing of that Lear that crashed in Mexico being captained by a 78 year old?

 

[Continental]

Except if your at cal/ual. They just go to flight test. We have 2 or 3 guys over 70 still there
One I believe is 76. UFB? Not at Cal

 

[flyboyike]

Goodbye bitches.

Good riddance.

 

[maxcackel]

See Ya

 

[Flyer1015]

And....................




..................nobody retired today.

 

[HA25]

And....................




..................nobody retired today.

Exactly!!!

 

[Quiet Flight]

Teed up!

Oh wait...

 

[hammer2]

Teed up....

Finally, you guys can look at the back of your eyelids....

 

[imacdog]

Today is a good day.

 

[Sherpa]

Looking forward to eating someones cake again finally. We had one go on the 10th, thank you sir!

 

[livin'thesim]

See ya later, you craven, cowardly, greedy thieves.

 

[gutshotdraw]

anyone else see the irony in the timing of that Lear that crashed in Mexico being captained by a 78 year old?

Yes, we noticed. And it's why I believe there should be a limit for ALL compensated flying or no limit at all (you can guess which I would prefer).

Why is it unsafe for a guy to fly a 737 for an airline the day after he turns 65 but it's perfectly safe for him to walk across the street the next day and fly a BBJ around the planet until he can't hold a medical, finally quits, or croaks?

Either it is safe at any age or it's unsafe beyond 65. Pick one....

 

[PCL_128]

Either it is safe at any age or it's unsafe beyond 65. Pick one....

Do we have to pick one of those two options? I'd prefer to pick option #3: that it's unsafe beyond age 60.

 

[Ky.BrownBourbn]

Yes, we noticed. And it's why I believe there should be a limit for ALL compensated flying or no limit at all (you can guess which I would prefer).

Why is it unsafe for a guy to fly a 737 for an airline the day after he turns 65 but it's perfectly safe for him to walk across the street the next day and fly a BBJ around the planet until he can't hold a medical, finally quits, or croaks?

Either it is safe at any age or it's unsafe beyond 65. Pick one....

OF course as long as "THE CANDY MAN, THE EASTER BUNNY and SANTA CLAUS are giving the medicals, they will continue to fly...WE ALL KNOW plenty of guys that shouldn't have a medical.

Later,
KBB

AND WE HAD ONE GOING OUT YESTERDAY AT SW, his birthday was today.

 

[Big Slick]

amf!!!!

 

[pilotyip]

OF course as long as "THE CANDY MAN, THE EASTER BUNNY and SANTA CLAUS are giving the medicals, they will continue to fly...WE ALL KNOW plenty of guys that shouldn't have a medical..

all a lot of them are in their 50's

 

[gutshotdraw]

Do we have to pick one of those two options? I'd prefer to pick option #3: that it's unsafe beyond age 60.

Point taken. But that horse is out of the barn, across the highway, and running and calling "Wild Fire" (sorry, classic music reference there).

We can't fix the number but we CAN fix the scope of the regulation.