Pilot Age Limit-Japan

[bafanguy]

FYI:

http://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Eco...aise-retirement-age-for-pilots-to-65-or-older

"Plans under discussion also include a relaxation of the limit on flying hours and the use of non-Japanese pilots."

 

[sstearns2]

" Japan and many other countries require pilots to retire at 64. Japan's transport ministry raised the age limit to 62 in 1996 and to 64 in 2004. There have been no major operational problems reported in relation to pilot age since these two changes. This has prompted the government to review the age limit again, ahead of other countries doing so.

So their plan is to keep increasing the retirement age until airplanes start crashing? Most pilots consume a diet that leads to heart attacks and cerebral drift and our medical exams (really our whole chronic medicall system) are a joke. Age 65 is already too old.

 

[bafanguy]

So their plan is to keep increasing the retirement age until airplanes start crashing?

Well, assuming the article is even remotely accurate in its reportage, when they use words like those below, it's far from a done deal. And, there's an entrenched, constipated bureaucracy to be dealt with:

"...will consider..."

"...prompted the government to review the age limit..."

"...under discussion..."

And my personal favorite:

"...plans will be presented to a meeting of experts..." A meeting of experts ? What could possibly go wrong with THAT ?

Gotta laugh. But, there's money at stake here, so...


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11283098

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/international/japan-budget-carrier/1109392.html

"'We already know that the number of pilots is in crisis,' Koike is quoted to have said in the Telegraph. 'The baby boomer pilots are now going to retire ? and the number of new young pilots hasn't been well recruited."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/a...d-pilot-shortage-caused-ageing-poulation.html

http://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Eco...framework-to-blame-for-Japan-s-pilot-shortage

 

[Dumb Pilot]

Retirement in Japan is 65, after 60 the medical examination gets very strict, that is even more strict that it already is, a large percentage of over 60 pilots do lose their medicals before they reach the age of 65, we just had two over 60 pilots fail their medicals.

 

[HalinTexas]

Three in my class failed their initial medical. Ages ranged from 42-58. The JCAB physical is tough and the "60" physical is astronaut level. 2 friends just did it.