Bll Bran comments

Reason why there s a shortage is the high cost of learning and then the low pay in the beginning when you get hired . It takes as long to be a pilot as it does to be a doctor . To get to the major airlines it takes nearly 8-12 years and that is after you get a collage degree. The physicals I get after age 50 requires a ekg, and everything else you would expect . Many of pilots do not pass these even when they are 30 .. I could fly to 67 no problem but It is not that easy or enjoyable specially with the new rules in the US flying up to 9 hours in the cockpit with no relief pilot and them with the possibility of going 10.5 hours or more if you have to fly to another airport. This is just flying not the duty day which is 14 and they EXPECT you to go to 16 hours. The new rules that were made after the Cogan air crash were for safety , what a joke I am tired all the time have heard many guys falling asleep.. Its the the age its the rules that they make becasue the airlines are happy to abuse the limits which cause the problems.The physicals will get more stringent to go past 65 just as they were to go past 60. It has already been proven that there is no safety problem with this as Charles pointed out above that numerous country's have been flying past 65 for a long time.You also have to pilots there each capable of flying it.