Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #51883
From: Lancair <lancair-esp@ustek.com>
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Subject: Insurance for greybeards
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:52:31 -0400
To: <lml@lancaironline.net>
I read a comment on the LML that a pilot over 70 would no longer be insurable.  It was the first I had heard of such a thing so I went to the source: Scott at SkySmith Insurance.  He added some clarification, see below:
 
It gets more difficult to get insurance in complex aircraft the older you get. Typically if you are insured and stay with the same company after 70, you just get more requirements. I have a 75 year old in  Legacy, 310 and 414.  I also have a 70 something in a 421.  A 70 something in a TBM 700 and so on.
 
Usually you will need to be insured with someone and stay there. They will start requiring a medical every year and by 80 they will probably require a second qualified pilot in the aircraft. 
 
It didn't help that the Continental pilot that died in the air was only 60. That will create knee jerk reactions in the industry that old (above 60)  pilots shouldn't fly commercially or complex aircraft.
 
 
Robert M. Simon
Lancair ES-P
N301ES
(And let's all hope that no pilot in his 20's dies in flight or all commercial pilot slots will be filled by teenagers!)
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