Originally Posted by
GeeWizDriver
If the company wants a mandatory retirement age, their best avenue is to approach all those Congressmen and Senators that Uncle Warren has in his pockets like so many nickels and dimes. They can drive a regulatory change within Part 135/91K to harmonize with Part 121.........
With the looming pilot shortage and the upward pressure on wages, I doubt that there's much support for mandatory retirement age in congress, or in the investment community. A couple of age related crashes could change that, but so far there's not much data pointing to old pilots being a safety hazard...just anecdotal stories told by junior pilots whose motives may be tinged with a desire to move up.
If old pilots ARE really a hazard, we should quantify/qualify how and at what point. I suspect such a surgical knife could cut in unexpected directions.
It was interesting to see how many over-65 pilots there are. I wonder when the first over-80 pilot will appear in the stats.