Originally Posted by
rickair7777
This whole argument is disingenuous, and it keeps coming up.
The US is *not* a homogeneous society, like Japan and Scandinavia which everyone contrasts us to.
US general population statistics is 100% garbage if applied to upper middle-class professionals, especially those who not only have the means but also actually have an incentive to be healthy to keep their jobs.
My premise is if .gov wants to deprive us of some of our liberty than do some science on the relevant demographic. It's OK if they take the time to do it right before potentially raising the age.
You don’t have a “right” or “liberty” to fly an airplane.
We all considered the current restrictions good enough when we started. The current system is a good balance between the invasiveness of testing and a reasonable retirement age. Taking a cog test every year sounds absolutely terrible. Fail it because you didn’t get a good nights sleep and you’ll be in a months/years long struggle with the FAA medical bureaucracy.