Mr Toad
My post was primarily about unions,with reference to Phone Wind's post referring to IFALPA's objection to raising the retiirement age. We are talking about people in their sixties here and I would suggest that somebody who has been staring at a lathe for forty years wouldn't be looking for another job. In my forty seven years of aviation I have met quite a lot of pilots who tolerate it, don't like it, or are even afraid of it, but it pays the bills. Your post suggests that you do not belong or are protected by a union. A lot of helicopter pilots are and they are on what you describe as lush grass. They have their forward planning sorted out, some will want to pack it in, some will want to carry on. The choice should be up to them but they wont get any help from the union because of the reasons I quoted. This thread is not about jobs, it's about legislation. I have always said that pilots should be able to fly on while they are fit and skillful enough and not be subject to an arbitary age limit imposed by their govenment.