dfaust, yes, death and taxes are the only two certain things on earth, but I think with the human species its hard make firm rules as humans are all so different in many ways. I recently purchased an aircraft from a ninety six year old pilot, who drives every day in big city traffic {Toronto} who retired as an experimental Chief Test Pilot for a major aircraft builder and still enjoys doing aerobatics in his beutiful Chipmunk, and leads a very full and productive life, is also computer literate by the way, on the same trip I visited one of my contempories in his mid seventies who is a bloody wreck, so I think one has to go case by case, this of course requires tough medicals and and life style monitoring , although we had an "in house joke" when I flew the heavy metal that one shouldnt fly for three days after ones pilot medical as quite a few fell dead in this period! Myself? late seventies, sold our companies and aircraft, live on the familly farm, but still fly one corporate aircraft {two crew by the way} and fly our personel aircraft for fun, as does my wife, the only thing I find really tough is four AM starts, but then they were ever thus! By the way, as an end note our insurance underwriter would be charging over 75% more for a low time { less than 800 hours on type } 25 year old pilot, and this for less coverage, make what you will out of this, its still too much bloody money for a little 10,000lb twin!
Last edited by clunckdriver; 10th March 2014 at 12:26.
Reason: Insurance details and typo