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To: CedarDave
BTW, is there a federal age maximum (70 or so) beyond which you can not pilot a plane?

No. BUT, this excerpt is from the AOPA (Aircraft Owners And Pilots) website...

Unless you're an airline pilot, the FAA doesn't care about age, and airplanes don't either (airline pilots are required by law to retire at age 60, but there are no age restrictions on other types of flying). You can be a real duffer (we'll use 85 years old as the entry level to dufferdom) and the FAA medical examiner and the FAA won't bat an eye. Both the medical and actual flight instruction are demonstrated-ability situations: If you can pass the tests, you're in. If you can't, you're out, and that applies across the board regardless of age.

Airline pilots, BTW, are pushing to have the 60 year rule raised to 65. The guys and gals love to fly! My own father qualified as a Cessna Citation jet single pilot..... at 73!

Your 60+ y.o. corporate pilot flies under a commercial/charter provision of the FAA rules. And why not? How often have read about a case of the pilot having a 'medical problem' causing incapacitation such as posted on this thread?

Still, that's another reason why there are two licensed pilots (the co-pilot is fully licensed) up in that cockpit....

14 posted on 01/25/2007 9:58:33 AM PST by GoldCountryRedneck ("Idiocy - Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large numbers" - despair.com)
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To: GoldCountryRedneck
My own father qualified as a Cessna Citation jet single pilot..... at 73!

I gave a bi-annual to a guy who was 80 one time. He was an ex-747 captian, and I worked him pretty hard to see if he would ge confused or behind the curve, but he did just great. He had this little plastic kneeboard checklist and anything that I had him do he had a checklist in there and could pull it up and do it in seconds. He was a little totering physically, but he had a valid medical, and could fly the airplane, so I signed him off.

19 posted on 01/25/2007 3:22:27 PM PST by narby
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To: GoldCountryRedneck
Airline pilots, BTW, are pushing to have the 60 year rule raised to 65. The guys and gals love to fly!

Excuse me?? Most of them want to fly past 60 because they don't have a pension anymore! They'll fly til they die -- but not by choice.

22 posted on 01/25/2007 5:45:45 PM PST by zipper
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