Originally Posted by
resa
I fly the line and I'm in the training building for about 100 sims per year. I don't know what your "99%" of sample size is but your observation is so far off you should report for a mental health evaluation. The very small numbers of pilots that show decline are pulled aside and not returned to the line. They are retired. If your observation is correct why are you not reporting it to pro standards? Why is your training dept passing them? Or, perhaps, you want to create a false narrative? And why might that be? If I was going to use the exact same ruler to fail someone in the sim, a person in year 1-2 of employment would fail at a higher rate than someone 63-65 yrs old. I'll see you in the sim.
Hard data says otherwise.
Fwiw few 60 year olds do initial quals and when they do they’re not going to out perform 30-40 year olds or even 20 year olds. It’s not even close in any way shape or form. The younger kids are more obedient, study better, fly better, work harder, and break less. Older ones like me do the opposite but we pass more gas.
Btw teaching and evaluating 100 sims a year isn’t that much. I do about 200-230 per year and I’d say I’m not working as much as others. I’m too old for that.
To be honest I’m not sure if there still is the age 23 requirement but that’s what should be eliminated.