Originally Posted by
SonicFlyer
This is what happens when you government. The 1500 hour rule was a purely political decision by Obama & Co and had nothing to do with safety. As far as age 65, there are plenty of pilots over 65 that are perfectly capable of piloting an aircraft.
Plenty of guys/gals who can safely drive at a BAT of 0.10 and fly at 0.05 too, but enough are sufficiently impaired at that level that there’s a danger, and you oftentimes can’t tell who is safe and who isn’t until the disaster happens. All limits in laws and regs are a legal fiction. The difference in experience between the pilot with 1499.5 hours and 1500 hours is essentially nonexistent, the between subject variability in QUALITY of experience being far greater than any measurable difference between the two. Same for speed limits, but some people are careless and some have the reaction time of a tree sloth and it all has to be enforced by people who are themselves often not the best and brightest.
You tell us how to fix it.