No doubt one needs the skill and maturity to evaluate before you react in things rotary, and things heavy, fixed-wing wise, unless you wish to tear their control surfaces off.
However plenty of that age were fighting and dying in things flying not so long ago.
Youth, agility and manipulative skill, as long as one seer recently put it, is trained properly, will work, until the day an old old head is required on a young shoulder.
Neatest pilot my old man ever saw, he reckons was just eighteen years old in a P51, given a bum steer by a nav error of his flight leader and was creamed,, en route from OZ with 77 sqdn, juuust on top of an island, in fog, in the straits between the main Japanese islands. -1945, BOFU -
One of the flight of four survived, he had been back a bit, but came back with the story, that during reaction to a dark blur in front with - upside down in fog, nothing on the clock but the makers name. how lucky?