Just the thought of that possibility could cause a heart attack and the accompanying loss of one's medical certificate.

But thinking of your proposal... I'm still unable to think of a down side.
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Get rid of all mandatory retirement age rules.

Greedy junior airline pilots have always been salivating over the next senior pilot being forced to retire and thus allowing junior pilots to move up the seniority list.

The FAA's mandatory retirement age of 65 rule for airline pilots is still nothing less than blatant age discrimination and it has been greedy junior pilots and the damn unions that represent them who continue to perpetuate stupid mandatory pilot retirement age rules. Pilots should have the choice of flying for as long as they wish and are able to pass the FAA's medical exam.

We are loosing our nation’s most qualified airline pilots. The United States government forces most of its most experienced airline pilots out of their profession simply because of a harmful and seriously out-dated law. Age alone must not be the sole determination as to when an airline pilot must retire.

United States Part 121 air carriers have thousands of highly experienced, skilled and capable older pilots. It is a crime against a pilots' civil liberty that the most experienced pilots are excluded from flying for a Part 121 airline only because once they celebrate their 65th birthday, regardless of their health, are forced to retire. There should be no age limit in being an airline pilot. The current age 65 rule imposed by the FAA has no basis in science, yet it is still on the books. It is time to rescind this outdated regulation, and allow our best experienced pilots to continue doing heir job. --- An x-airline pilot forced to retire at age 60 and still ****ed-off about it.

 

But didn't every single one of these "capable older pilots" benefit their whole career from pilots being forced to retire ahead of them? I'm pretty sure they were all "greedy junior airline pilots" at one point too.

Oh, and they already got 5 free years at the top. Whos greedy now?

 

Didn't you know that when you signed up?

 

OMG looks like someone is about to turn 65

Happy Birthday to dinosaur.

From,
Greedy junior*

 

I missed this part of the pilots' constitution. Could you post a copy?

Perhaps you do need to retire. Looks like it took you almost two years to react to this thread.
Maybe you can make-do on your government pension.

 

Pilot's constitution:

Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, more, more, more, more, money, money, money, money, women, women, women, women.

 

Agreed, but everyone should be required to pass the anual cardiac stress test regardless of age.

 

We can certainly debate any age changes from a potential safety standpoint...but how do you make the case for making someone start over at the bottom of the list?

 

You could never legally make that case.