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Too Old?
Gezellig wrote:
On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:30:50 -0400, Dudley Henriques wrote: Ben Jeffrey wrote: "Dudley Henriques" wrote in message ... Orval Fairbairn wrote: I know quite a few pilots flying well into their 70s -- some in high-performance planes. Hell Orval, it took that long for some of us to get proficient :-))) -- Dudley Henriques I have a friend in our soaring club who flew Corsairs as a USMC pilot in WW2 and still flys regularly in our club - usually the first to launch and the last to land. To top it off, most of the time he flys his Pitts to the club from his home field. Ben Jeffrey Some of the "older" pilots are in phenomenally good health. I deal with a lot of them on a daily basis. They're amazing! And some aren't Dudley neither of which is the point. The point is that Fed/FAA gets aggressive, age could come into question regardless. For that matter, why not a local port like Vegas throwing up their own rules? The one's that aren't should fail the medical. THAT is the point. The "system" is supposed to discover and weed out those not medically fit to fly. As long as you can pass the medical, you fly. It's THAT simple! Nobody says the system is perfect. There will always be those pilots who slip through a medical check and then have a heart attack while flying. Personally, I would be an advocate of more frequent medical checks for pilots of a specific age determined by accident stats and medical histories. Of course if they went that route, you'd have the ACLU on their ass screaming about "rights". There is only one additional safety gap in the present system; that being the individual choice of a pilot to voluntarily stop flying after having a medical issue during the period between medicals. As I said, it "ain't " a perfect system by a long shot! -- Dudley Henriques |
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