aged pilots
it's AGEING that's the problem, not the AGE.
I've just lost my Class 1 ( but not yet Class 2 ) due to medical issues related to ageing, I've no problem with that. S**t happens.
I have held a pilots license for a little over 50 years albeit now an RPL.
But over that period Our beloved CAA medical section gronded me on average once every 5 years for high BP.
I still have Hi BP( by their standards, they expect a 75 year-old to have 130/70) which I have never had.
If one can dismiss the ego factor, fly to any age is acceptable provided its for the pleasure of being an individualist, which is what all pilots are like it or not.
Aviation in NZ now has become an act of impossibility: with a BFR which is more stringent than a pilot issue, a medical which I have to make like I am 25 years old. More in-flight rules and restrictions and restricted airspaces in a sparsely populated rural district.
I have given up. more fun in depleting my supply of scotch or gin.
I wish to die gracefully, not all tensed up just before impact, wishing I was not flying today.
Every body gets to where they say if honest "I GIVE UP"