Living past 65 doing night freight?
 

Hello all,

Does anyone have any information about the percent of pilots that croak or don’t croak that do night flight after they retire.

Thanks. I hear a lot of rumors but don’t know how true they are or what’s factual.

“Everybody gotta die sometime”

Tom Berringer
“Platoon”

If the rumors were true then none of us would be able to get life insurance.

What rumors? Did you even rtfq?

People who die early probably had poor health and dietary habits to begin with, the backside of the clock flying probably didn’t help. Take care of yourself by eating and excersizing. Do doctors, police officers, nurses, 3rd shift guys all die early too?

The original poster's question is unclear. It appears that he's asking about flying freight after retirement, or after reaching 65 years old.

For 121 operations, the maximum age is 65.

Circadian disruption is known to be bad for your health, and a career of that will most likely take years off of your life (if something else doesn't get you first).

But flying night freight after age 65 is probably not going to matter much, because your material condition at that point depends much more on what you did for the last 45 years, and less on what you're going to do tonight. Also presumably as a semi-retiree without kids at home, you have some lifestyle flexibility and can stay mostly on the back side on your days off. The back side in and of itself isn't that bad, it's the flopping back and forth that hurts.

Lassie wasn’t a freight dog.

I’d be impressed if that person lasts 6 months.

Lassie was a puss!

Average life expectancy of a man in the United States is 76.1 years.

While circadian changes are physically hard on the body, I'd bet cargo airline pilots don't have any statistically significant shorter life expectancy than passenger airline pilots.

A reasonable diet, regular exercise and a commitment to recovering sleep deficit impacts all airline pilots, not just freight dogs...