........I'm 40, but I feel like I'm in my 20's. In my head.
So I made a reasonable guess when wondering what you will think in 30 years time, 70 now being considered as a retirement age.
What would you think if "someone" now decreed that all pilots should be stopped at age 39, irrespective of their individual physical condition ?
and if age alone is to be the criteria, what age ? and who is going to become the God that decides that ? and will you acquiesce with them subserviently ?
At age 64+ I was offered a short-term job as co-pilot to age 65, my first simulator session after a 4 year absence felt just like going home, I renewed my Class 1 med. ATPL and I/Rtg. and thoroughly enjoyed myself for 8 months, and why not if that was what I wanted to do and was physically and technically able to so ?
I can no longer maintain a Class 1 med. and of course that has happened as a result of the ageing process, but not because of any specific, arbitrary birthdate.