1261 days to go!

[pilotyip]

Lets celebrate another good year coming, age 70

Amazing how the geezers seem so desperately unable to answer even the simplest of questions, isn't it?

OK OK OK I will draw the line at 100 years old all pilots should not be allowed have a medical and can only fly as sport pillots.

BTW Becoming a "geezer" is not a bad thing compared to the only other alternative.

 

[flyboyike]

OK OK OK I will draw the line at 100 years old all pilots should not be allowed have a medical and can only fly as sport pillots.

Well, at least you finally took an actual position on the issue. That's a start.

 

[pilotyip]

Well, at least you finally took an actual position on the issue. That's a start.

What will be the end if that is a start at 100 years old?

 

[Flopgut]

OK OK OK I will draw the line at 100 years old all pilots should not be allowed have a medical and can only fly as sport pillots.

Perfect! I couldn't agree more. Now, why don't you scale the appropriateness of this limit of 100+ to fly Sport only, to Private, then Commercial, and then all the way out to ATP FAR 121. Where do you think you'll end up? Factor what might have constituted an ethical approach to increasing retirement age, since only 4 pilots were over age 60 when that became the limit. Consider also that the argument of discrimination and/or love of flying hardly occur outside someone that is not already extremely senior. So account for both greed and proper ethics...

What will be the end if that is a start at 100 years old?

Right back at age 60 Yip!!!

 

[pilotyip]

Right back at age 60 Yip!!!

pure "get out of my seat", so much for greed

 

[Chest Rockwell]

If anyone that thinks that age 60 was a good rule they should produce an intellegent justification for restoring it. Start an effort just like the one that changed 60 to 65. Be prepared to spend alot of time (10-20 years) and effort.

There have been changes to 14 CFR Part 61, 91, 121, and many other areas that have impacted all of our careers. While venting about it here has serves some purpose, it will not change any law.

 

[UndauntedFlyer]

Look what the AGE-65 rule has done!

From the Wall Street Journal

(WSJ)Airline travel is now the safest it has been since the dawn of jet planes, with the global airline industry set to mark its lowest rate of fatal accidents since the early 1960s.

The U.S. hasn't had a fatal accident since a commuter plane crashed near Buffalo, N.Y., in 2009.

Experience Counts

 

[SIG600]

From the Wall Street Journal

(WSJ)Airline travel is now the safest it has been since the dawn of jet planes, with the global airline industry set to mark its lowest rate of fatal accidents since the early 1960s.

The U.S. hasn't had a fatal accident since a commuter plane crashed near Buffalo, N.Y., in 2009.

Experience Counts

And there are thousands of guys with as much or more experience waiting for you guys who pulled the ladder up behind you, to move on.

 

[pilotyip]

And there are thousands of guys with as much or more experience waiting for you guys who pulled the ladder up behind you, to move on.

No there isn't, the expereinced will be replaced by inexpereinced. When that AAL CA with 10K of MD-80 PIC time retires, he will be replaced by someone with no MD-80 PIC time, who has been sitting the right seat of a &&& for 10 years. The same applies to every major airline out there, the junior equipmnet PIC will be most likely replaced by the senior equipment SIC

 

[flyboyike]

No there isn't, the expereinced will be replaced by inexpereinced. When that AAL CA with 10K of MD-80 PIC time retires, he will be replaced by someone with no MD-80 PIC time, who has been sitting the right seat of a &&& for 10 years. The same applies to every major airline out there, the junior equipmnet PIC will be most likely replaced by the senior equipment SIC

Is your point that the Mad Dog is so extremely challenging that someone with ten years of 767 SIC time can't hack it or what?