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instructor, [who may, by express statement of Mr. Quesada, be age 60 or older] as the pilot-in-command of a heavy jet airline aircraft engaged in the practice of landings and takeoffs repeatedly at a busy commercial airport, with several trainees aboard on the flight deck or in the cabin, none of whom are likely to be qualified on that airplane. Does the protection of airline passengers from the possibility of sudden incapacitation of their pilot require that the rule prohibit pilots from operating all-cargo flights after age 60, as it now does, while permitting that same pilot to serve as an airline flight instructor under the circumstances described above?

31. It is respectfully suggested that the assurances sought by the Administrator when he formulated the rule, can, during the interlocutory period while an evidentiary determination on the validity of the rule is being awaited, be achieved by application of one or more of the suggested limitations upon the assignments available to airline pilots, without disturbing their employment. In this way, the FAA will insure the preservation of appropriate public objectives while the matter is