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US lawmakers strike deal to boost aviation safety, will not raise pilot retirement age
WASHINGTON, April 29 (Reuters) - U.S. House and Senate negotiators said early Monday they had reached a deal to boost air traffic controller staffing and boost funding to avert runway close-call incidents, but will not increase the airline pilot retirement age to 67 from 65. The U.S. House of Representatives in July voted 351-69 on a sweeping bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that would also raise the mandatory pilot retirement age to 67 but the Senate Commerce… (www.reuters.com) Más...Some people are mentally aware into their 80's, others lose it in their 40's. Setting an absolute age limit is not a real answer.
This arbitrary age limitation thing drives me up the wall. You are absolutely bang on with the cognitive differences, mental alacrity, intelligence, and all round clarity and keenness. It's a pity the law makers in both Canada and the US don't realize this.
Two persons aged 67 can have such divergent capabilities that you'd think there was a 30-year age difference between them.
Two persons aged 67 can have such divergent capabilities that you'd think there was a 30-year age difference between them.
A 1000-page bill would be an automatic NO vote for me.
Yep, we are no doubt going to be paying for abortions in Africa and sending technology to Iran and china and whoever else democrats sell us out to. These Omnibus bills are garbage and should be illegal.
It’s not just a democrat thing. Both parties do it and the solution is to just ban them.
I think all elected officials should be subject to annual physicals & cognition tests.