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Jose wrote:

There's more of them, more fatalities,
and it is difficult to get older folks out from behind the wheel.

I'm thinking aviation is easier to pick on, since there are fewer
pilots than drivers, and old folks don't equate flying with personal
freedom, as they do with driving.

I think you hit it on the head. Older people who cannot fly are not
deprived of their lifebloood (notwithstanding the bloke in Iowa). But
take driving away, especially in large areas of the country, and the
elderly are pretty much abandoned.

Everything carries a risk, and I think the immense difference in quality
of life between being able to drive, and being cooped up at home with
almost no way to buy a can of beans on your own, is worth the risk of
having older people behind the wheel. Especially if they realize their
own limitations and abide by them.

Jose

I have a friend, former Chief Pilot for Eastern, who just turned 90. He
is mentally sharper than a lot of people half his age -- and he still
flies! Another old Eastern pilot, Joe(?) Miller, just turned 100 and
still flies his Bonanza. He landed somewhere and tried to rent a car and
was told that he was too old! How about them apples?