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Poor judgement is not the same as incapacity. We have a framework to deal with poor judgement. What we also need is a framework to deal with incapacity.


we do - they're called Aviation Medical Examiners.

The pilot operating this flight would have had, at minimum, a 2nd class medical, which has to be renewed every 12 months.


> which has to be renewed every 12 months.

That is simply insufficient. Introduce age to the standard and increase frequency of examinations with increasing age. And let's strongly discourage pilots over a certain age where reaction time, eye-sight and cognition is known to become more deficient. Yes, definitely let's discourage and restrict old people from operating dangerous machinery, no matter how rich and entitled and personally insulted they may be.


age is in fact part of the standard...


I think 4 examinations a year for any pilot over 60 is not unreasonable. Because only one examination a year for a 70yo is definitely absurdly unreasonable.




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