Too Old?

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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"Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe" The Sea Hawk @See My Sig.com writes:

Yes. Not sure, but he is retired from air shows. Yes - he got a medical
in
Austrailia and continued with air shows for a while (just not in the US).
The FAA finally conceeded to restoring his medical after a round through
the courts.

"If they can do it to Bob Hoover, they can do it to anyone."

On what basis did they deny his medical in the U.S.?

Google is your only friend, go argue with it.

http://meer.net/users/waa/freehoover.html

On Aug 31, 3:13*pm, Gezellig wrote:
Recently a 72 yo went blind in flight (stroke?) and safely landed in the
drink in FL. Several comments were that age should be considered in
keeping your PPL. I can see this makes sense /but/ it would prolly be
illegal.

Too old? If so, at what age do you place the cutoff?

I'm still flying 70-80 hours a month at 72. I will keep on flying
until I bust a physical. Flying seems to keep me younger than my
contemporaries or is it my 2x week workouts in Aikido (2nd degree
black belt)? Perhaps its my 2 year old son?
Some people age quickly and some don't. I don't.

Ol Shy & Bashful wrote:
On Aug 31, 3:13 pm, Gezellig wrote:
Recently a 72 yo went blind in flight (stroke?) and safely landed in the
drink in FL. Several comments were that age should be considered in
keeping your PPL. I can see this makes sense /but/ it would prolly be
illegal.

Too old? If so, at what age do you place the cutoff?

I'm still flying 70-80 hours a month at 72. I will keep on flying
until I bust a physical. Flying seems to keep me younger than my
contemporaries or is it my 2x week workouts in Aikido (2nd degree
black belt)? Perhaps its my 2 year old son?
Some people age quickly and some don't. I don't.

Hi Rocky; Seems we have something else in common. Judo for me, Nidan.
Played for years until I had to give it up after my surgeries. Loved
martial arts training.

--
Dudley Henriques

It's the marital arts training that keeps me going {;-)

Jim

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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it."
--Aristotle


"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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Loved
martial arts training.

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Dudley Henriques

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:53:20 -0700 (PDT), Ol Shy & Bashful wrote:

On Aug 31, 3:13*pm, Gezellig wrote:
Recently a 72 yo went blind in flight (stroke?) and safely landed in the
drink in FL. Several comments were that age should be considered in
keeping your PPL. I can see this makes sense /but/ it would prolly be
illegal.

Too old? If so, at what age do you place the cutoff?

I'm still flying 70-80 hours a month at 72. I will keep on flying
until I bust a physical. Flying seems to keep me younger than my
contemporaries or is it my 2x week workouts in Aikido (2nd degree
black belt)? Perhaps its my 2 year old son?
Some people age quickly and some don't. I don't.

Best of luck to you, I am mid 50s and would hate to think that there
might be a mandatory retirement for a PPL.

We fly in a hostile GA environment and I can see an airport manager like
the moron at VGT taking any ball he can and attempt to run with it. If
he can claim experimentals unsafe, training unsafe, why not elderly age
unsafe?

The PPL exam is pretty much a joke which doesn't help as a defense.

Gezellig writes:

The PPL exam is pretty much a joke which doesn't help as a defense.

The medical exams for licenses are a lot more restrictive than they need to
be.

In rec.aviation.owning Mxsmanic wrote:
Gezellig writes:

The PPL exam is pretty much a joke which doesn't help as a defense.

The medical exams for licenses are a lot more restrictive than they need to
be.

In what respect?

What standards are too restrictive and what should the standards be?


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On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:55:04 GMT, wrote:

In rec.aviation.owning Mxsmanic wrote:
Gezellig writes:

The PPL exam is pretty much a joke which doesn't help as a defense.

The medical exams for licenses are a lot more restrictive than they need to
be.

In what respect?

What standards are too restrictive and what should the standards be?

Aside from Mx's trolling, you ask a fair question. The answer is "who
knows"?
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writes:

In what respect?

In almost every respect. One need only look at the numbers for sudden
incapacitation among automobile drivers to see that it's a very minor risk,
even with no physical.

What standards are too restrictive and what should the standards be?

All the standards that attempt to weed out persons at higher risk of
incapacitation: restrictions on diabetes and epilepsy, hypertension, cancer,
kidney disease, headaches, allergies, and a long list of other conditions.
The physical should concentrate on the ability to fly an aircraft right now,
and not attempt to guess which people will or might be suddenly incapacitated
by some medical condition.

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Gezellig writes:

The PPL exam is pretty much a joke which doesn't help as a defense.

The medical exams for licenses are a lot more restrictive than they
need to be.


You are an idiot.


Bertie