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Old 29th Jun 2020, 17:28
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Easy Street
 
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Originally Posted by Two's in
Yes, I am proposing that age should be a discriminator in high performance flying. A lengthy study on the instances and effects of Cognitive Impairment could be avoided altogether by a quick check of display pilot's birth date and flying recency.
I hope you mean ‘high performance display flying’ (in which case I could be persuaded to agree) and not other areas of high performance flying where the consequences of momentary lapses are better mitigated. Andy Hill was 51 at the time of crash: capping high performance aviation at an age below that would have a huge impact on air forces’ training throughput requirements and, to compound that, availability of instructors. And unless MFTS sorts its act out it’d reduce RAF fast jet pilot careers to less than a decade!

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