This job has changed so much in the last 20 years. Anyone thinking about it for a career, please think of a different career. When you earn a decent salary, have weekends off and are not constantly knackered you can go hire a light aircraft and enjoy it when you want to!
Invest your £100K in a different line of work is my opinion….

Flyboyike,

Let's see, a whole seven years and you are noting the aging that airline flying is doing already? You won't make 50 or 60, if that's the trend. I've 17 years of full-time active duty, three wars; a total of 15 years of corporate and 5 airline and still hungry for more. No, don't need the money, either.

Galaxy Flyer, that's exactly what I said, I certainly won't make to 60, nor do I want to.

Thank you for your service.

Lets see what you say when your 59.

65
 

Excuse me if this has been mentioned before but I do not want to trawl through all the posts.
I have a valid licence, just renewed my LPC/OPC etc etc. I have just turned 65 and I am not even allowed to be the third pilot to extend the FT on a long duty day. Now that IMHO is plain crazy. It is rules for the sake of rules. Where is the safety case for denying me a very cost effective way of helping the crewing situation in my company? It simply means the crews have to fill out more discretion reports.What is safer? 2 crews doing a 14 hour day or 2 pilots + an old fart like me getting in the way. I suppose the space cadets will say the former!

Hawker, play some golf, enjoy life a little, learn to let go.;)

Sail round the world; or as far as you can get. or Remember who the wife is before she wonders who you are and why you are still there after 5 days.

Since you have been giving advice and complaining about age vs the job, and given the above you apparently understand the concept of letting go, so perhaps you should take some of your own advice to heart. You'll last longer, and there are much larger aviation related fish to fry. :cool:

These days I often don't suffer fools at all.

However, in contrast to yourself (and I'm older than you) I don't seem to get as tired as quickly as I used to. Certainly not as quickly as my co-pilot, who is some quarter century younger than me. Maybe I just learned how to pace myself.

Indeed, and that's exactly what I'm going to do soon enough. Most of y'all will probably still be hanging on, and that is well.

.A couple of beers at midday, followed by a few hours decent sleep as a result - instead of tossing and turning in a vain hope of getting some sleep, did wonders for the following night flight !

( but don't tell anyone)

When one of my colleagues was about to retire ( at 55 in those days ) his wife was panic stricken - " I married him for Better or Worse" she said "Not breakfast, lunch and bloody dinner "

Rumour is NZ's CAA and Australia's CASA will both adopt this new rule.

Unlikely in NZ.... refer NZ's overriding Human Rights Act regarding discrimination.... don't know about Australia

If it does, pretty much mean mandatory retirement at the big aero club in NZ.