Old 09-03-2025 | 02:18 PM
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Originally Posted by PineappleXpres
How about Cargo pilots?
Include them in the study, identify them as such. Maybe their situation is so much worse that they need different (better) rest rules and a different retirement age.

Yes I know their rest rules are currently not 117.

But the reality is that the retirement age is about pax safety, not cargo or crew safety. Yeah they might crash into a building, but so might many other non-121 airplanes.