Originally Posted by
No Land 3
Older you get, the harder it is to learn. There is reluctance or resistance to hire an older pilot, even if they still do it. This is fact.
The training centers at every legacy are full of old guys who can finally hold a widebody. They do just fine. Any reluctance to hire because of age would be because the airline wouldn’t have as many years to benefit from the pilot’s labor and to recover training cost. From the instructors that I’ve talked to, there seems to be more problems during training associated with young pilots attitudes than old pilots ability.