Occam's Razor
Risible...ALWAYS risible
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I am sure the Tigers would have liked to add a few innings to last night's game even though they new it would only last 9 innings when they started.
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I am sure the Tigers would have liked to add a few innings to last night's game even though they new it would only last 9 innings when they started.
Didn't he fly for TWA?
I heard a story about him flying a 727-100 where he pulled some circuit breakers to extend the LEDs so that the plane would fly faster. I am sure others have heard the story too. I am pretty sure I heard he was the captain.
Wow. Lots of people here jumping on Hoot for wanting to stay on the line.
I have been to several retirement parties and at every single one of them the guy was saying "I'm not ready to quit....". We all know that when 60 comes its time for the pasture. However when its YOUR turn to retire and you climb out of that cockpit for the last time, you might be uttering those very same words....
Exactly!What nerve, wanting to keep his job past sixty just because he enjoys it and brings a ton of experience to it. Ahh, the rapacity of some people.
Wow. Lots of people here jumping on Hoot for wanting to stay on the line.
I have been to several retirement parties and at every single one of them the guy was saying "I'm not ready to quit....". We all know that when 60 comes its time for the pasture. However when its YOUR turn to retire and you climb out of that cockpit for the last time, you might be uttering those very same words....
Just admit it, greed and only greed is driving your resistance to pushing the age 60 rule up a hand full of years.
PATHETIC!
If you re-read my post you will read that I stated I was planning on exiting the industry. I am planning on exiting this industry only because of personal issues and wanting to spend more quality time with my family. I will take another huge pay cut but making money and pushing aluminum around the world has become less important to me.You should be ashamed of yourself coming out here and announcing semi-publicly that you DO NOT want to get out of this business in time to enjoy your family and the other fruits of your labor. To me, THAT is PATHETIC sir.
Hoot only put in 10 years at SWA, the responsiblity for his position in his airline career was due mainly to SWA's keen management and expansion plans.The very fact that you (and Hoot, by the way) have your jobs now is due in large part to this very rule.
BINGO, I think a mandatory retirement at any age is wrong and should be changed. I think you will find some guys flying past 65 and many more not making it past 55 if you applied more strict medical requirements the older you get.And, if your argument really was genuine, then you would be railing for NO AGE LIMIT, because 65 is just as arbitrary as 60 is.
except at:But Gibson said ALPA members don't want the change because pilots who retire at 60 enjoy a hefty benefits package.
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That sums it up. All about money. They keep referring to ICAO. The only reason ICAO adopted the change is because they are critically short of pilots. Go move to the UK old timers and fly til they cart you off the plane in a pine box.Southwest Airlines, whose pilots are not represented by the ALPA, is on record as supporting a change in the age limit, spokesman Ed Stewart said Friday, as does the Southwest Airlines Pilot Association.
I'll give you one thing though. NEW RULE: If one part of the Federal gov't (FAA) forces a person to retire at a certain age, then federal retirement benefits (Soc Sec) should be available that very moment to said individual. No gap. The current situation IS WRONG and should be addressed.