BluSidUp - you appear to have entered this argument/discussion well after the starting post. For years and years the retirement age was the same as for everyone else, 65. Quite arbitrarily the UK minister of the day changed this limit to 60, no discussion, no evidence, just imposed. Fortunately, but many, many years later, this decision was reversed and a pilot’s retirement age returned to the original age of 65. The retirement age of 60 was never universally accepted by the pilot community, only certain self interested groups within the community and was continuously fought until it was reinstated as 65.