Article: Older pilots crashing in disproportionate numbers
Matt Barrow wrote:
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You are right of course, since we so rarely have alternate
transportation. There are a few "senior ride" type programs, but they
are insufficient.
Boy, you should take a tour of a typical "Seizure World"! :~)
If you are talking about the kind of thing I think you are, we have a
number of them here in the Phoenix area. Sun Lakes is just a few miles
away. They're kinda nice, actually. Well done, upper-cut homes,
waking paths, and many houses have a mini-garage used to house their
golf cart, which gets them around the neighborhood and the local
grocery store. Hey, why do you hafta be a geezer to get that kind of
deal? 8)
The reality is that those folks are pretty darn well off. Many of the
houses are only occuppied in the winter half of the year.
And, they still have cars, and lots of motorhomes, so the issue of
aging drivers still remains.
Do they have planes??? I'm thinking most don't since they are
organizing to complain about Memorial Airfield maybe becoming
operational on the Indian Reservation nearby. Oops, that a whole
'nother thread.
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