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.
Age 65 was the camel's nose in the tent. The day that happened, everyone should have known the age was eventually going higher. And after 67 passes, you should be expecting 70 as the next stop
I had a conversation with a pilot in his late 40s recently. He said he knew the age would eventually increase. He just wishes that it doesn’t happen for a few more years.