Originally Posted by
bArt2
For example because the government in your country raised the minimum pension age for commercial pilots from 56 to 67, like over here in Belgium. You are no longer allowed to fly, but you are only allowed to retire two years later.
That is true in the US as well for those born after 1960.
Assessing and managing the risk associated with the physical aspects of an aging pilot is good and continues to improve. The problem, in my view, is assessing cognitive decline. I come to the opinion that after a certain age a pilot should not be allowed to train in a new aircraft. What’s that age? 61, 62, 63, that I am not sure but it has become clear to me as a check and training airman that at a certain age the mental capacity of a pilot to successfully train in a new aircraft is diminished. Before all you old geezers start flaming me (I’m 57 BTW), I admit this is an annectodal observation.