Yes but just think just one captain staying past 60 is still worse than all of them having to leave at 60, its a terrible thing my g/f is bitching at me cause she thinks all I do is complain, but its truly going to have a very negative effect on our careers.............

 

I'm hellbent on being 100% done working by the time I'm 55, and this just reinforces my drive to do so. WTF would I want to work MORE?!!?! Sigh, like others I think it will negatively impact our pay, thus making my goal even harder to attain. Time to tighten the belt even more. Damn it!

 

I think it's much tougher for you to tell me what I'll be feeling. Most of the guys I've talked to wish they were still flying. Different strokes for different folks. I don't like people putting an age limit on my usefulness. Yes it's about the money, but it's not all just about the money. I've never regreted what I do. I've put up with all the crap and still like it. It's what I was built for. You guys talk like you still have the same crappy schedules which isn't true. My neighbor has been flying for UPS since 1989. He's a young guy still but he's wealthy and doesn't have to do it anymore. He chooses to do it. He loves it and says he doesn't know what he'll do with himself once he's done.

You're right when you say it's tough to forecast. That it is. But what if at that point I do still "want" to keep flying. Wouldn't it suck to have someone tell me "tough luck"? If it's what makes me or those guys happy then let them have it. I don't think the age limit should have ever been there to start with.

 

Right on Nightsky. Why anyone would want to do this crap one second longer than they have to escapes me. The guys who lost retirements can retire, they just can't support a six digit lifestyle anymore. I'm pretty sure most can live out a modest retirement. Good enough in my book.

If you're making a hundred grand and living like you are making a hundred grand, the only thing you are really making is a mistake.

 

Man, I really hope you are joking. If you aren't, I sure don't want to think a professional airman would advocate insurance fraud.

I keep reading how "the system" screwed everyone. What system is that? Capitalism?

 

Guess a cfi at 49 like me should go on welfare so younger people can persue their goals.
Wait. . . . .maybee I'll drop like a fly and that would be that, and you can have my Boze headset.

 

Yea! Totally joking! Geez, I guess I need to be more careful when talking on here....

 

While being completely irrelevant to the point at hand...I am 23, have a B.S. and was hired into the CRJ with 1,100 hours total time. I had a slot in the ANG but it didn't work out medically.

I rest my case.

 

You have no case to rest...

 

No, you should have gotten into the industry earlier. We shouldn't change the rules to make life better for the late starters. I am in my early 30's and this has been my career since my mid 20's. I have made aviation my life and now I am going to be slowed down in my progression, just when things were about to get good. So, while I do not begrudge you the opportunity, I don't think it is necessarily polite to rub it in our faces. Thanks.