Posted on 12/31/2016 5:43:32 PM PST by Eddie01
Sarcasm or not, I do feel strongly about this issue to repeat it.
Happy New Year to you too.
Mirthless one, stop bothering me.
Take your crusade somewhere else.
So sorry, won’t wake you up until you sleep off the mirth.
I think that someone is confused.... there is no 80 milligram per 100 ml of blood rule here that applies. If they have consumed ANY alcohol in the previous 8 hours or there is ANY residual impairment from a time that exceeds 8 hours, they can't fly.... https://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/civilaviation/publications/page-6083.htm
Mam, hard to believe booze is legal with this sort of thing going on.
I know that if the ATC is passed out, and the pilot is passed out, the passengers all ‘get religion’ real quick.
Kinda like ‘no atheists in foxholes’.
That’s quite an accomplishment considering the cost of alcohol in Canada.
True, why not just have them all have to blow into a breathalyzer before every flight?
Authorized level or not...
The authorities said the pilot had more than three times the authorized amount of alcohol (0.08 percent in Canada) in his body two hours after his arrest.
drunks are easy to spot....not so people that take weed and other drugs....oh, wait, I forgot....weed doesn’t affect you...me bad...
Exactly.
In midflight, I hope?
“and the co-pilot???”
Doesn’t seem to be any mention of him/her.
Not sure about other states, but New Mexico has DWI laws in which completely sober passengers can be convicted of DWI if the driver is drunk. There needs to be similar laws for pilots, if there there aren’t any already. Perhaps the notion that pilots would even consider flying drunk or stoned while being responsible for the lives of dozens or hundreds of passengers is so outlandish that there isn’t a need for laws regarding such, but it has become quite clear that despite the classical image of pilots having some kind of heroic persona, they’re human, just like the rest of us, and a certain percentage of them are going to struggle with substance abuse issues.
The first time I heard about a pilot getting a DWI was 20 or so years ago. In the small community I live in, there’s an ‘airport’ on top of a small mesa that consists of one small hanger and a single dirt runway. At the time, I had a friend who lived in a house located just below the mesa about 200 yards past the end of the runway.
One day, a small single engine plane from somewhere else landed there and he pilot went to visit with some friends. Evidently the pilot and his friends spent their visit drinking, because when the pilot decided to leave, he made it down the runway but didn’t take off, went over the edge of the mesa and crashed into my friend’s house. The local female deputy was the first to arrive on the scene. Nobody was hurt, but the plane was trashed and my friend’s house now had a plane sized hole in it. The deputy cited the pilot with DWI. At the time I found it kind of funny at the absurdity of a pilot getting a DWI, but what else was she going to charge him with?
that's what i was thinking, against company policy at the very least to let either seat let the opposite seat fly drunk
You can’t come to work drunk, you’re not an airline pilot!
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