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Old 18th Aug 2010, 03:08
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parabellum
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Whilst I'm definitely in the camp with lambourne in thinking that at 65, it's time we should give it away,
MT OW - I think most of us agree that 65 is enough but lambourne, MAS etc. are in a rage about anyone continuing past 60.

For some of us, (not USA), 65 was the deal when we first got our licence and we were robbed of five years for no good reason. In the UK at least, there is ample evidence that there is little, if any, serious deterioration between 60 and 65. One particular AME in London, also a Specialist in Aviation Medicine, invited all pilots on his books who were affected by the arbitrary reduction to age sixty to continue medicals, for free, with him until they reached 65. All the evidence was then submitted to the authorities and eventually, after many years too many, they responded, age back to 65.

Unless lambourne is simply a wind up I think he needs psychiatric help.
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