Going naked - no license or insurance - depends on how well you have
buried your money so the lawyers can't get to it. At 85, if his wife has
passed and his kids have their own money, he isn't risking that much
financially.

"Doodybutch" wrote in message
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Last year, an acquaintance of mine turned 85 and stopped flying and
sold his airplane. He just figured that he had done it long enough
and he wasn't as sharp as he used to be. He flew a lot right up until
he sold his plane and he was quite experienced. I suspect for private
reasons that he had not passed an FAA physical in years and that he
did not bother to buy insurance, since the company would refuse to pay
anyway if he smashed up the airplane without a valid physical.

So... I'd like to throw out two questions to this group ...

1) If you can't pass a physical or you don't feel like getting a
license and you feel like flying anyway and you are willing to accept
the liability personally without any insurance, exactly what's to stop
you from taking this path?

2) How many pilots do you think are doing just this? From reading the
FAA accident reports, I suspect it's more than a few.

I welcome your opinions. Don't bother with preachy, holier-than-thou
platitudes - just the pros and cons.

DB