Originally Posted by
SGRogue
But, just because mandatory retirement is 65 now, doesn't mean it will be 65 in the future. Many expect it to change. Big question will be the ability to hold a medical. You might still get that shot at 10 years.
Dr Ansa Jordaan, ICAO Chief of Aviation Medical Section, has been silent on changing pilot retirement age. Her predecessor, Dr Anthony Evans, pushed extremely hard for raising pilot retirement age. He wanted to see it go to age 70.
Based on what I've read since the age change, the incapacitation data would make it very hard to raise the current retirement age.
Here's an old slide deck from Dr Evans; one of many that Evans gave on this subject:
https://www.icao.int/NACC/Documents/...ICAO-Evans.pdf
You won't find any slide decks on briefings given by Dr Jordaan on this subject so I doubt there will be an ICAO push to change the age any time soon.