Originally Posted by
Hedley
A question for those who support raising the age. If the international aviation community raises the age to 67 or some other number, should US pilots also meet their more stringent medical standards? Our flight physicals are extremely relaxed and most pilots seek out that “easy” AME that doesn’t really ask many questions. Do you want the extra years while maintaining our current lax physical requirements, or would you be willing to play by the same rules as other countries?
I doubt more thank 75% of American pilots would pass an initial EASA one and less than 50% the Chinese or any Asian medical.
For example I just let my EASA license go, since I needed to do an initial medical again, it’s been over 1 year since it lapsed. And they now want close to 3000$ to do it. On the initial medical you need to spend a whole day with two phycologist at your own cost. Ever had a kidney stone, nope you can never fly again etc etc etc…