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No, it's a recognition that we aren't going to have a test, so we have to have an age. If we have a test, a lot of the guys who really want to stay past 65 would have been kicked out by 55. No one wants to open that can of worms. Air guardian has an interesting perspective from his particular operation. But the passenger airliners do not go to outfields once every few years, you simply don't need someone with 30 or 40 years of experience to safely operate. That doesn't mean they can't safely operate, but this argument that you need decades of experience to do this job is just laughable. It's a cookie cutter operation even at some of the "challenging" airfields. Yeah, I don't want to send a 23-year-old brand new Captain off to Guatemala on his own, but no one was arguing for that. In the passenger carriers the biggest threat is a compound emergency that requires very quick decision making. Considering most 65-year-olds have never even had an engine failure, longevity does not contribute to that. A focus on training, and mental quickness is what will separate pilots after about 10 years of experience. Like tac airlifter pointed out, slowing down and asking for clarification alleviates the majority of passenger carrier mishaps. You don't need 30 years of experience to do that. If we really want to start down the cognitive testing route, the 60 plus crowd is not going to like it when they start showing the cognitive decline curve on a chart on CNN every time there's a mishap. At a certain point the people in the back of the plane are going to ask why their pilot is lower on the curve. Yes, initially there will be a threshold set based on the average 65-year-old, but that threshold will be a lower score than the average 55-year-old or 40-year-old or 35-year-old. Once you start quantifying something that costs billions of dollars when it goes wrong, people will ask "why are we settling for less than the best?" No one cares when a few rich people die in a business jet, which is why everybody 65 and older can continue to fly in that career. This is a "problem" that does not need to be solved.

That bio is a word salad of bullshit. When I read this kind of crap, I always picture that bar scene in Good Will Hunting where he’s mocking the Harvard idiots. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

AI Pilot leaves Air Force for Southwest Airlines

First she will be hired into the next Democrat elected administration. FIFY They live in Alvin Bragg's district. The first round that was arrested was released, charged dropped and the arrest expunged form their records. I disagree on the retarded part...this is purposeful and has been for some time. Conservatives turned a blind eye as liberals took over Universities. Remember, those who can..do....those who can't teach. When they chant "I am Hamas" and openly call for a Jewish Genocide. NYPD release video showing professional 'protest consultant' at Columbia University

Homeboy in the back in his little crop top number should wear that outfit into Rafah and see how far he gets.

Except those aren't the choices. The old guys I fly with are clearly very experienced and have a wealth of knowledge. But most don't recognize how unsafe they can be, and arrogance is a hazard they are blind to. I'll take the young CA who taxis slow and asks for input over the 65 YO who has done this so many times he doesn't need to double check that last radio call.

I get the question all the time. I'm at about 15% in the right seat, and I think I'd be around 70 in the left. I easily make as much or a little more than a same seniority Captain stuck on reserve, and fly less. A line Captain will make more than me, but the difference in schedule is dramatic. I probably average 30 hours of flight time a month and get paid 90 to 120 hours. I regularly eat dinner at home, put my kids to sleep, then go fly 1 hour away and I'm back before my wife gets home from work. I'm rarely away from home more than one night in a row, and if I am it's because the trip pays a bunch and still doesn't have much flying to it (e.g. a 30 hour layover for premium pay). I fly only the days I want, no weekends or holidays unless I choose, as many vacations whenever I want. I do have the luxury of a wife who makes six figures as well, but even if she didn't it would be hard to give up on this schedule when I can just wait another five or so years to upgrade, then do it as a captain.

kick people out of your seat? GMAFB.

Certainly with all of our knowledge and technology we could devise a test to see if someone has declined, no? I just don't understand how people can be so itchy to discriminate based on just throwing down a blanket "no one is capable of flying after the age of 65" when it's clearly age discrimination. Which is exactly what it is. All it is in actuality is a mask to kick people out of your "seat." Which is BS.

This is what happens when parents didn’t discipline their iPad kids, now they’re college students. Speaking of one retard.

I’ll take “Phrasing that is blessedly not part of my vernacular” for $800, Alex

I hear the same about the AAL 777 runway incursion at JFK. Lost the data because they then flew a leg to Europe. As long as it's not a video camera, which this isn't, then I don't see it as an issue.

We already have something like 6-9 hour CVRs, what is going to 25 going to change? I guess someone may hear my ramblings on how to best exploit the contract to get the most pay for the least amount of work.

Forget the extra two years being shot down. Didn’t anyone see the “25 hour cockpit voice recorder” requirement within the bill statement. No one will ever get close to the current 65 year max. Good luck to ya’ll.

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The ATFs actions in an enforcement capacity should be removed or severely curtailed. Look we don’t have Treasury agents doing Elliot Ness bootlegger raids anymore, we don’t have other agency groups with their own group of local Joe door kickers taking down guys doing illicit internet stuff. IRS doesn’t conduct raids, they accompany them. The ATF should have its nuts removed and outsource that action to local and federal law enforcement which hasn’t shown its self to be collectively up its own ass. There is no reason the FBI field offices and local departments couldn’t fill that capacity and it would foster better inter agency cooperation. They can still be armed in the normal accomplishment of their duties, same way the crime scene guys all are, but it’s for an understand of protection or exigent circumstances not to go conducting raids because they want to moonlight as SWAT. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/major-columbia-protest-organizers-have-ties-to-left-wing-donors/ar-AA1nuWZW Here’s a very surface level snapshot. Do some digging/reading and you’ll see this is all funded/organized by similar actors as BLM in 2020. Same big pic goals with a different label. First learn who CUAD is and what groups are under its “umbrella,” then learn where those various groups get their funding from.

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/jewish-billionaire-george-soros-pro-palestine-protests-us-campus-university-demonstrations-fundings-money-2532211-2024-04-27 https://www.businesstoday.in/world/us/story/is-george-soros-behind-anti-israel-pro-palestine-protests-in-columbia-other-us-universities-heres-what-we-know-so-far-427241-2024-04-28 https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/us-news/2024/04/26/662bf96a46163f789c8b457f.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/anti-israel-protests-nationwide-fueled-183612850.html

Funny as I get older, I've decided my best award was coming home with everything still attached. I tell people to read between the lines in a lot of higher awards citations. You can usually tell that at least one and sometimes more individuals really screwed up to put any person in a position to earn it in the first place. Do your job right and you get out without anyone knowing who you are and I'm perfectly ok with that. Certainly, you don't get a screenplay written about you.

If they only hold signs and say stupid things, mock them and point out their stupidity. (Hopefully, that clues in their peers.) If they break the law, prosecute them.

How about a win-win and just abolish both? Obviously that would also entail firing everyone that currently works for both organizations with a life-long ban of those individuals ever working for the federal government again. The country would be a better place. Send the Capts to a spring break destination of their choice for the entire month of March and watch retention skyrocket and have zero loss of learning.

Soon available at your local Class VI... Here's some useless trivia for everyone! The Class VI store is called that as the Army divides supplies into classes. Ammunition, for example, is Class V. Liquor is one of the personal items covered by Class VI! https://www.dau.edu/sites/default/files/Migrated/CopDocuments/Military Classes of Supply.pdf

I'm not sure whether or not it would be considered a perforated ear drum. You'd have to ask your flight surgeon. My guess is that they would consider it as such. I'm going to repeat my previous advice. I STRONGLY suggest you demand to be referred to a neurotologist. ENT's have a limited "bag of tricks" when it comes to ear issues. When I first saw the ENT, he prescribed dramamine, for motion sickness. When that didn't work, he wanted to go straight to surgery, by inserting a "silverstein wick" in my ear, and dropping steroids into my ear every few weeks. I was not too keen on this approach, and did some research, which led me to the discovery of the neurotology field. Most of these doctors started out as ENTs, then went on for advanced training dealing exclusively with inner ear disorders. My neurotologist put me on diuretics, and the problem was solved. About two weeks before my PHE, he will prescribe prednisone, which helps reduce the hearing loss temporarily. If you tell me where you are based, I can do some research on the meniere's forums to find you a doctor.