I am well aware all this has been aired to death before, but apparently some think that any barrier to 'fly 'til you die' is age discrimination. I have no objections to flying over age 60 per se but there needs to be some checks and balances put in place and so far there aren't. And since I am in the left seat I have no axe to grind promotion-wise. These guys are F/O's.
I vehemently object to having to do someone elses job for them.
I have lots of personal experience with over 60 pilots, some excellent but quite a few are really struggling.
I mentioned this to a doctor who has some influence in these matters and his advice to me was, "if there is a problem with these chaps you will have a talk to them and they will take themselves off to a medical practitioner for a reappraisal".
Yeah, right!
Last edited by skol; 1st March 2006 at 18:18.