Can't wait to see all those bright happy smiles of the 66 year old previously retired WB CAs filling the seats of a Regional indoc class!

LEPF guys clearly haven't even read the WP349 fully. It has a long list of key issues to solve before the age can be increased.

"request that ICAO establish standardised medical risk assessment and oversight systems informed by a standard set of pilot medical data to reliably assess the medical risks associated with pilot age;"

"a system of standardised data collection about the medical status and health-related performance across all pilot age groups. This data should as a minimum include the incidence of medical conditions in license-holders, medical reasons for retirement from CAT operations, reasons for voluntary non-renewal of medical certificate or loss of medical certificates through regulatory action, and inflight safety and performance data (for all events);"

"identification of locally appropriate medical screening strategies to safeguard future health and performance, including early identification of medical conditions that require further assessment to ensure the risk of incapacity in individual and the system remains acceptable;"

In effect, they need to rewrite a lot of the medical standards.

This process will take years.