No Sky for Old Men? Cognitive and Psychomotor Factors of Licensing 60+ Pilots for Single-Pilot Aircrafts

A practical need of evidence-based criteria for assessing individual permission for piloting single,pilot aircrafts after 60 years was an inspiration to perform research and formulate a guideline,for psychological examination. Due to lack of empirical data from active 60+ pilots we analysed,cognitive, intellectual and psychomotor performance of over 3000 professional drivers aged 18-76,years