Interesting reading.
He also concurred with C/MED that there was limited data available to allow a scientific
justification to change the age limits for pilots, adding that the age of sixty was as arbitrary as any other number that
might be selected. Therefore, he supported consulting States through a questionnaire. On the other hand, he did not
consider that the process of submitting a questionnaire along with a proposed amendment without giving due
consideration to the results from the questionnaire was the best course of action, especially since he could not see an
urgent need to do so, particularly since the existing provisions had stood the test of time and should not be amended
in haste.
Responding to the previous intervention, C/MED pointed out that, in the JAA context, there were
additional conditions attached to the upper age limit applied in the European countries, one being that an older pilot
could not function except in a multi-crew operation as well as the matter of the other member of the crew being
younger than sixty years of age.