Nacho, do you even bother to read the posts before you start spewing. You just get worse and worse.

Regardless of whether they're greedy, or just made poor investments, doesn't the Netjets pilot union have a committee that looks into medical/physical (not just age related) issues of pilots' fitness for duty? Or is this a company committee?

Unions don't investigate anyone's fitness to fly. That's for your flight surgeon to determine.

Uh....I don't think you understand the issue. I believe NJASAP does have a committee that does exactly that. The flight surgeon evalutates pilots on the day of the medical exam, the union (company?) committee deals with longer trends.

It might be a company committee with union members. Never heard of a real union that would do that. Now, maybe with an in house faux Union it would be a possibility.

So you must be 65+? You sound like you know this from your own personal experience. :rolleyes:

Yep. Flown with plenty in 60's and few 70's. Spent a lot of time checking, double checking, fixing mistates...etc.
But I am NOT throwing stones because I will be there one day and am going to need a sharp young buck to fly with who will do the same for me.

(Yes some are still sharp but it is a perishable skill)

I would say this depends on the equipment and the job. If you're climbing into the front of something large vs. a King Air it may not even be close to the same experience. I've been with a couple of older gents the last few months. One simply simply couldn't pull his weight with the physical side of the job (loading over sized bags in the joke of a baggage space we have, getting on your hands and knees changing a lav - all while it's 120 degrees in the plane on the ramp.) They could actually FLY just fine. Just couldn't do anything else. I was extremely frustrated by the end of the week. So, as much as I don't want it to, it becomes the other pilots business.

Plus, as one gets older, the Give a "S" factor is reduced greatly!

Well..That begins in your forties. ;):D