"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message

I'll be happy to be old and flying solo as long as a I can
do it safely. Just not sure if I'll be the best judge of
my safe flying when I'm on the tail end of my years.

There was a guy I flew with in the 727 some years ago, a close friend at the
time. His Dad had retired from United some years before that, and was still
flying a corporate craft -- KA-200, iirc -- at the age of 81 when he finally
retired. That was in the early nineties.

JG