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03-26-2023 | 09:08 AM

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2StgTurbine

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Originally Posted by TransWorld

Good health, passing rigorous physical and mental exams — retire when you want.

That's the problem. We don't have rigorous physical exams and we don't even have easy mental exams.

03-26-2023 | 10:28 AM

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dmeg13021

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Those at the top care not how many would get taken out by that rigor if they can only hang on two more years.

03-26-2023 | 10:43 AM

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Cyio

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Those at the top care not how many would get taken out by that rigor if they can only hang on two more years.

I am not for extending but those extra 2 years would be the highest earning years of their careers. For some it could be another million bucks.

03-26-2023 | 10:51 AM

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rickair7777

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Originally Posted by 2StgTurbine

That's the problem. We don't have rigorous physical exams and we don't even have easy mental exams.

The mental exam is the sim.

Yes, I have known of two pilots who struggled with sim after years of experience on the type, who were subsequently diagnosed with some sort of dementia condition. If they struggled on the line, it didn't rise to anyone's attention.

03-26-2023 | 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by TransWorld

Good health, passing rigorous physical and mental exams — retire when you want. That is going to happen in the next couple of decades.

The risk of sudden incap rises with age, there are lots of factors but you cannot remove age from the equation. I think there does need to be an age limit, but don't know what it should be.

That age has probably increased since the 1950's as people on average live healthier lives.

I would be OK with slightly more stringent requirements for BMI, blood pressure, etc after age 50 or 60... those are cheap and easy to measure and also easy to correlate to specific statistics for stroke, etc. That would mitigate the age associated risk.