Originally Posted by
Regularguy
BTW the reason you don't hear of military crashes is because it rarely involves the deaths of civilians. The military is about death and destruction in an effort to protect the rest of us. When a single seat fighter goes down it just doesn't make the news in the same way as a MAX.
I've been in the military a long time, military safety stats are irrelevant to civilian flying, the military has to take peacetime training risks to maximize wartime effectiveness.
Originally Posted by
Regularguy
But the question at hand of this thread is 70 year old pilots. Personally, as I approach those years, my opinion is we need to move over and let the next generation advance the throttles. To do otherwise is basically delusional and selfish (of course those two may go hand in hand).
I think 67 is about as far as you can go without being unreasonable... or implementing truly invasive medical and cog screening.