Originally Posted by
G550Guy
It is as far as the FAA is concerned. Anything else and it’s discrimination. Checkride failures, increase medical costs, etc etc are NetJets problems. The FAA has no legal ground to determine who they can hire or fire past the standard limitations to be a pilot as set in the FARs. And those limitations and standards have to be applied to ALL pilots from the first solo at 16 to the 75 year old NetJets pilot... equally and fairly.
I’m sure NetJets would love to see the government change the law so the onus is off them... but the Supreme Court could see it very differently.
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Oh 100% from the FAA standpoint it is. I just mean from a cost perspective at NJA, there are many factors. Let’s face it, age hasn’t been a cause in any accident or incident there that the public has been made aware of. But the sharp decline in cognitive function and skills is a major factor in the high costs of training, and retraining these pilots.
Just heard about another pilot having to go back to the XL because he couldn’t hack the Latitude. That’s a nice 50,000 dollar chunk of cash that NetJets will never get back and it has happened more than 5 times with 5 different pilots. Those are the ones I’ve heard about, and that doesn’t even factor in pilots that religiously require extra sims for their PC, those that can’t pass a LOFT etc.