Pilot age rule change to help shortage?
05-19-2013 | 08:16 AM
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Pilot age rule change to help shortage?
No I don't mean 65. Maybe they'll start going younger and younger.
I mean, if someone can pass a medical, who are we to say that they shouldn't be able to have their job in the front of an airliner. I personally support no age requirement whatsoever. If a 14 yearold wants to do it, they should be able to do it.
Merseyside teen qualifies as one of the UK's youngest pilots for Ryanair - Liverpool Echo
I mean, if someone can pass a medical, who are we to say that they shouldn't be able to have their job in the front of an airliner. I personally support no age requirement whatsoever. If a 14 yearold wants to do it, they should be able to do it.
Merseyside teen qualifies as one of the UK's youngest pilots for Ryanair - Liverpool Echo
05-19-2013 | 08:28 AM
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No I don't mean 65. Maybe they'll start going younger and younger.
I mean, if someone can pass a medical, who are we to say that they shouldn't be able to have their job in the front of an airliner. I personally support no age requirement whatsoever. If a 14 yearold wants to do it, they should be able to do it.
Merseyside teen qualifies as one of the UK's youngest pilots for Ryanair - Liverpool Echo
I mean, if someone can pass a medical, who are we to say that they shouldn't be able to have their job in the front of an airliner. I personally support no age requirement whatsoever. If a 14 yearold wants to do it, they should be able to do it.
Merseyside teen qualifies as one of the UK's youngest pilots for Ryanair - Liverpool Echo
Pretty impressive to have a 14 year old playing in the Masters too - but he ISN'T the norm!
05-19-2013 | 09:11 AM
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Sounds wonderful. Passed with flying colors! If I can steal a line, allow me to pour an icy cold bucket of aeronautical reality over your head: The rare but serious occasion that the PIC becomes incapacitated? Now add in a line of weather, or widespread strong winds or blowing snowstorm, or low fuel, and Jet Johhny solo at the helm?
05-19-2013 | 09:19 AM
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No I don't mean 65. Maybe they'll start going younger and younger.
I mean, if someone can pass a medical, who are we to say that they shouldn't be able to have their job in the front of an airliner. I personally support no age requirement whatsoever. If a 14 yearold wants to do it, they should be able to do it.
Merseyside teen qualifies as one of the UK's youngest pilots for Ryanair - Liverpool Echo
I mean, if someone can pass a medical, who are we to say that they shouldn't be able to have their job in the front of an airliner. I personally support no age requirement whatsoever. If a 14 yearold wants to do it, they should be able to do it.
Merseyside teen qualifies as one of the UK's youngest pilots for Ryanair - Liverpool Echo
05-19-2013 | 09:54 AM
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Sounds wonderful. Passed with flying colors! If I can steal a line, allow me to pour an icy cold bucket of aeronautical reality over your head: The rare but serious occasion that the PIC becomes incapacitated? Now add in a line of weather, or widespread strong winds or blowing snowstorm, or low fuel, and Jet Johhny solo at the helm?
05-19-2013 | 04:25 PM
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While not many, but this chap is not the first one under 20 I've had on my jet during my tenure with FR. There are a couple of 19 year olds at my current carrier as well.
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