How about we each buy the other person one Thursday night?You are the man!!!! So does this mean you owe me a beer at Oshkosh?
I think it's funny how many folks focus on the "old guys" when it comes to this. As part of our research, we just completed an analysis of something like 530 GA fatalities (we have data for 1400 or so but were looking at something really specific and there was only sufficient information about that in 530 cases). That included all of the medically incapacitated pilot induced crashes in that series. All three of them....aged 44 (ultralight crash), 56 and 68.My friend who is 77 and still flying could throw a stroke tomorrow just as easily with his 4th class medical as the 2nd class he maintains now. At my current age I have 729 days for something serious to occur between 3rd class medicals.