Originally Posted by
capt_zman
"And as for the changing of the age from 60 to something over 60 causing additional health testing that could adversely affect younger pilots. Good."
That's real nice. You've successfully made your career, fed your family, put kids through college and drive a porsche. Now, you want to subject the entire junior crew force to more stringent medicals, so we have an even greater chance of never making retirement. I don't care how healthy you are or how much you work out, stuff happens, especially in this job.
You wonder why there is such animosity between pilots, it because of this crap. F--- everyone else, as long as I get mine. Makes me sick. Nothing more than pure self-centered greed.
That's not what I was trying to say at all (although after rereading your quote of my post, I can understand where it seems like I'm specifically talking about younger guys.) What I'm saying is that we should all be medically fit to do this job. Pure and simple. If the Feds up the age, and they want to increase the medical requirements for older guys, I'd have absolutely no problem with that. I'm not at all asking to "subject the entire crew force to more stringent medicals." Are you saying that one group of pilots should have one standard and another group of pilots have another standard? How fair is that? But again, I'd have no issue with increasing the medical requirements for over 60 guys, if it were a requirement to regain a window seat, or even for the f/e seat.
The fact that I've fed my family, put my son through college and drive a porsche (and also a Mercedes CLK), doesn't mean that I want everyone else to fail or not make it to retirement. That's pure BS. This is my 3rd airline, the one where I had to sit in the back seat for 5 and a half years (the first time), because they weren't hiring. I managed to do the above things because I've been lucky enough to have planned, worked two or three jobs my entire life, and not had any toys, vacation homes, etc. If you have a problem with that, I'm sorry, but I won't apologize for landing at the right airline at the right time, any more that I'd expect these new guys apologizing for getting hired directly into the right seat of a widebody, or guys making captain after 4 or 5 years at the company. It's a matter of luck and lucky timing, nothing more. Good for all of them. I think it's great and hope it continues indefinitely.