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Old 20th Nov 2002, 08:58
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BarryMonday
 
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saudipc-9 In the UK the retirement age was 65 and was arbitarlily changed to 60 sometime in the '80s, it is now back to 65 but that doesn't really help when France, Italy, India and the USA still keep it at 60, including overflying. When many of us started our careers we planned for 65, as was reasonable.

As a recent letter to 'Flight International' by Dr. Ian Perry, a specialist in aviation medicine, said, there is no medical justification for stopping pilots at the age of 60, in fact he, (who did a study on pilots aged over 60), went on to say that realistically, from the evidence gathered from the health point of view, pilots could go to the age of seventy.
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