And as for the BS retirement boom thing. So there's going to be like 12,000 pilots retiring by 2013. Yeah, so what. Interesting statistic. One of mine is that people who make stastics are as accurate at predicting the future as a gypsy with a crystal ball. But that's not even the point. There's always people retiring. There's many, many thousands of pilots. (You aren't nearly as elite as you would like to believe.) Frankly, I'm surprised that the Age 60 rule hasn't been extended yet, to at least age 62. Is a 61 year old who still meets the requirements of a 1rst class med less fit than a 59 year old?