Many years ago I was encouraged to honor those who served as mentors to me, to send them a note thanking them for the impact they had on my life, on my career.
The proposal, which ALPA rejects, would likely enable those who taught their members to fly to continue to safely fly in aircraft in which they have thousands of hours flight time. I call major BS on these arrogant leaders who appear to have forgotten that there are those older flight instructors who showed patience as they taught them to fly, and who find themselves stymied by the fact that the FAA subjects them to relatively unreasonable medical standards that keep them out of the air flying those venerable C150's, C152's, C172's, etc, when the data reveals that they are quite safe, quite reliable. I would challenge ALPA's leaders to look their 70 year old flight instructor in the eye and tell them that the this legislation is not only good for them, but that it would keep them doing what they love to do, and to do so safely.
Arrogant as....es!
Randy