----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- At 10:42 PM 7/18/02 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 7/18/2002 08:30:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At very least, I'd like to see an upper age limit (60?). Greg How old ? You wouldn't be saying that if your were 60 and in perfect health. I might not be saying it, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be true. I'm as good at denial as the next guy. Hell, I don't really NEED that periodontist I go to. I just enjoy the conversations. And that ain't a pot belly, it's a fuel tank for a love machine. I'll be 60 the end of this month (July 30) The doctor says I have the blood of a twenty year old. My cholesterol is 182... [long litany of individual health skipped] Yep. And you look around at your friends, and you see some who are a real mess. And in a very few cases, you're going to find some with cognitive issues starting to crop up. Come back and tell me about that same group of friends in 5 years. Or 10. If you're 60, and fine, then you should have no issue with seeing a doc every two years to get looked over. As a matter of fact you ought to realize that's one way to STAY fine. I'm 43, and my 3rd class is no longer good for 3 years. I'm not going to whine. I'm just going to see the AME more often. That's life. And you know what? It's more likely he WILL find an issue at 43 than he would at 33. That, too, is life. When my grandfather was in his seventies, he began to become spatially disoriented. He went to drive from his house in Ventura to the bank, a distance of a few blocks. He ended up in Oxnard, and took two hours getting home after a small fender-bender. It was then clear that something was wrong. I can add about five more cases-in-point of relatives or relatives of friends who drove their cars WELL beyond the point when they should have. Which only proves the point that we humans tend to do what we can to deny age its due. This statement is similar to what A&E did last week on the story about small planes. They showed a bunch of accidents then lumped everone else in the same group. No, it isn't. Because A&E's story was specious. It's an unfortunate fact that a significant portion of the population, in their seventh decade (that's 60-70) begin to have some physical and cognitive issues crop up. And that a significant portion of those people are unable to recognize their own symptoms. It's also a FACT that the majority of pilots may be able to continue to fly and fly well, into their 70's and 80's if they want to. The problem is that some of the ones who can't aren't real good at knowing that they can't. I know people in their 70's & 80's that are still flying and or fit as a fiddle. Yep. And I've known a few who shouldn't have been. Problem is THEY didn't know it or wouldn't admit it. So someone got stuck with telling them. Someone whose responsibility it maybe wasn't. Except one who told himself, AFTER he rolled his classic airplane up into a ball on a simple landing. After 3500 hours in that plane. I stand by my position. Even if you don't like it. Greg ================================================================== TO UNSUBSCRIBE go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
<<attachment: winmail.dat>>
