Originally Posted by Hoosier Daddy

Oh, I get your point. It's known as faulty generalization. You were suggesting that, because Meemaw has cognitive decline, all older people have cognitive decline. It's a weak argument.

The truth is that some pilots could do this job perfectly well into their 70s and 80s. Just as some shouldn't be doing it in their 40s or 50s. Nobody has come up with a valid way of measuring that yet.