4/14/09

pilots fly to 65...

I just flew with a pilot that was one of our more senior captains who is now one of our most junior first officers.  He retired 3 weeks before the FAA raised the age of flying from 60 to 65.  

He has a good sense of humor about it... you would have to right?  He had to go back through training, flying weekends and took a huge pay cut.  We had a good laugh after we realized I was making more money then him.  

He's very excited to fly another 5 years!

3 comments:

The Flying Pinto said...

OMG...It's great he can laugh but wow! That's just not right!!

Blondie said...

The Captain in that picture looks like Ron Jeremy, the porn star! (I only know what Ron Jeremy's face looks like--really!)

Carol F. said...

So it was a forced retirement because of his birthday? And then a mandatory paycut for coming out of retirement, etc? What bad timing. Great that he loves flying so much.