Originally Posted by
Oriana
In Australia you can fly beyond 65 years (domestic) as long as you meet the (more) stringent medical requirements.
We don't seem to have many 'older' guys dieing or being incapacitated in flight.
If you want older pilots to GTF out of flying so you can take their place, well, that's quite selfish. Those guys earnt their stripes, and their experience.
All the in-flight incapacitations that I have heard about for quite some time have involved pilots much younger than 60!
Regarding those selfish younger pilots who just want the 'older pilots' out of the way, with the increasing pilot shortage that argument is very much part of the past and one would expect younger pilots to have the 'situational awareness' to be able to see that! (However, I suppose that that sort of selfishness does somewhat blinker their thinking. Maybe that might explain why many of them are still 'SFOs'!)