....even cheaper is don’t drink before a duty. If you require/need alcohol the night before an early report something is wrong - perhaps with your personal life or your discipline/attitude. Buying a (probably) questionably accurate breathalyser to check you’re “ok” should be setting off alarm bells. Bit of personal reflection may be?
We have a highly responsible job, remunerated accordingly. Is it worth risking that (and potentially the aircraft and its contents) for a drink? The rules are clear and known before we signed up - it comes with the territory.
As alluded to in an earlier post perhaps the greater threat in the future will be drugs not alcohol.
A4 it might not have been the night before, maybe a nice bit of Sunday lunch or some such situation where there would be enough time to metabolise the alcohol. The problem is that no one knows how quickly your body deals with it.
Yellowtriumph, if you want you pilots at the top of their game then you need to write to the authorities about the EASA FTL limits as this is far more likely to be the biggest factor in pilot performance than a few beers the night before. But that would cost 90p a ticket to resolve so it won’t happen any time soon.