Originally Posted by
Barley
You can’t point to these other countries with higher retirement age limits and simultaneously ignore their far more rigid medical process. Are we going to pretend like nearly everyone doesn’t go to the easiest AME they can find? Think that’s a thing outside the US? That’s the point he was making.
We definitely shop for the “easy AME” and actually increasing the medical standards to pass a class one medical would pour gasoline on the shortage since a large part of US airline pilots would fail if we were held to foreign standards. Other than checking blood pressure, vision, and a test strip in a urine sample for glucose levels, our physical exams are extremely lenient.