Originally Posted by
meleagertoo
The technique apparently was to go down the line and ask how many pints each had had and pick a crew from the lowest.
I know of that happening (on at least) one night the 80's in the civvy offshore world when everyone had retired to the pub after the end of evening flying but the ops officer had forgotten to tell the pilots which of the late crews was on night standby.
So when the call came in for the standby crew for a casevac everyone laughed and looked for the standby crew only to find there wasn't one.
Then came the "how many pints have you had Bloggs" selection process!!
Would not happen now ( I hope) - should not have happened then.