Not really Sharpshot.
I think that Monocock is just being equally realistic about the risks faced. Flying is statistically dangerous, just mention it to your life insurance provider, assuming that you are a pilot.
The point I was trying to make is that it is now OK to have that glass of wine, but the 14 pint session 8 hours before flying isn't. In my book that's an improvement in the law.
Health and safety is now an intricate part of all of our lives. Much of it is utter bollox. I'm struggling to finish a £25m school because a new H&S rule has dictated that bricklayers must wear eye protection and gloves. These chaps take pride in their work and are refusing to wear the protective equipment. The upshot is that they cannot work on the site. How long before we must wear hard hats, steel toe cap boots and eye protection, along with our hi-viz, just to walk to our aircraft?
You seem a forthright sort of bloke, although you wasted any argument by questioning the duration of my flying career. I love flying and fly a lot, every weekend that's its VFR and many evenings. I'm passionate about it and enjoy improving the perfection of doing it. Thanks to a good bunch of friends I also get to fly many different aircraft, apart from my own. Despite telling me to come bak in 30 years time, you tell us nothing of your flying experience, again assuming you are a pilot.
I suspect that my "glass of wine" post was what most people think (and I know that several have had that drink) and you spurted off some HSE type diatribe. You miss read me and I also suspect that my post reflected the common held understanding.
You are a photographer. You strive to get the shot that no one else has. I suspect that you may often be in a location that the general public may not be allowed to be in. Have you ever considered the danger that your positioning may pose to flight crew or yourself? Of course you have and the risk was zero.
If I ever do have that glass of wine, I will undertake a similar personal risk assesment and I'm sure the wine will complement my food perfectly.
In signing off, aren't statistics wonderful? Genghis' post said that 1/3 of all pilots killed had and a 15mg alcohol content in their blood. So twice as many pilots drove into the deck whilst completely alcohol free. Do we assume from these statistics that we are twice as likely to be killed if flying with no alcohol at all in our blood?
Of course not, but the presumption requires a modicom of common sense
