Let Experienced Pilots Fly Act (Age 67)

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12-03-2023, 05:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Dayzzofff

Per a document from 2011 titled “Delta Deceased All Years” from Delta ALPA, the “average age of those deceased” pertaining to a Delta Pilot is age 66.49. If the “let experienced pilots fly act” becomes law, how does this data change your perception on working until age 67 and the safety of flying past the average age of death for a US airline pilot?

Here's an actual link to a real study. Airline pilots live 5.6 years longer than the average male. 83.8 vs 78.6. They only tracked 25 years of deaths...

Lots of pilots used to post that Boeing study/HR allegedly showed workers dying quicker the longer they worked. Boeing HR home page finally had POSTED a hoax/denial page on their homepage saying the alleged 'truth' was B.S.

https://flightsafety.org/hf/hf_jan-feb96.pdf

12-03-2023, 06:28 AM

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Money may or may not buy happiness, but it's very clear statistically that it buys better health and longevity. No surprise.

12-03-2023, 07:22 AM

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In case anyone is confused on it, here's a refresher as to congressional priorities wrt to FAA reauthorization. The Rep. (from NJ if you hadn't guessed) gets straight to the point...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVmxDnBCECQ

12-03-2023, 12:35 PM

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Money may or may not buy happiness, but it's very clear statistically that it buys better health and longevity. No surprise.

Education, longevity, health, lack of belief in conspiracies, etc, etc goes up with income. No surprise at the macro sense but at the individual micro level it's all over the place. Smart poor people, dumb wealthy people.

12-04-2023, 05:40 AM

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This kind of front-page media coverage might encourage congress to get a move-on with FAA reauthorization, especially with holidays looming...

https://www.newsnationnow.com/travel...fing-shortage/

12-04-2023, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by rickair7777

This kind of front-page media coverage might encourage congress to get a move-on with FAA reauthorization, especially with holidays looming...

https://www.newsnationnow.com/travel...fing-shortage/

I get what you are saying, but will this actually solve anything related to the controller problem? It was my understanding that the people (ie. race, sex and skin color) they are looking for just are not showing up and even if they opened the hiring, its a couple year process to get someone fully spooled up. You may be right in that it gets the bill done, but I dont think it will change much in regards to the shortage.

12-04-2023, 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Cyio

Had a relative with a BS in Computer Science who also heard after COVID that we were low on FAA controllers so he decided to apply in two different windows, both time he got the "your not the candidate were interviewing at this time" letter and invited to apply during the next window. After the second letter he got the message and moved on to the private sector is so far is happy as a clam.