I get email after email from my state representative thanking me for giving my opinion on the potential rule change, but they go on to tell me that Airlines such as United have cut service to my state and blame it on a pilot shortage, and somehow raising the age to 67 will allow all the pilots in the “training pipeline” to finish training and get hired at an airline.

So my stance has changed to let pilots over 65 go back and fly an RJ. That solves the entire debacle of ICAO not allowing them to fly international. If you want to fly that bad at 65/66 years old, then go back to an RJ so this nation can recover from the tragedy of cutting air service to places like Cape Girardeau, Missouri and Kearney, Nebraska.

Nothing proves your love for aviation like swinging gear in a 200 in and out of a Class D airport with 23 passengers in the back