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Old 4th Aug 2004, 11:27
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bjcc
 
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Notso,

Sorry but I have never claimed to be great at spelling....irrelevent though it is to this.

I have to agree with serveal others who accuse you of a head in the sand approach. Pilots Doctors Police officers and every other occupation suffer from a percentage of people who have a problem with drug and alcohol abuse. However this isn't about those with a problem so much as stopping people carring out a job where they may be affected by taking either drugs (and not just the ones you can't buy in a chemists) and alcohol. No one is stopping you from relaxing with a drink when you are off duty, just they are stopping you from coming in with alcohol in your body. The same as a train driver or plenty of other occupations. You may well find any challange to your greater knowladge obsene, but the fact remains that pilots get arrested before and after flying with blood alcohol concentrations above the driving limits. If they are above the drink drive limit as you know they are certainly above those for flying.
More recent examples are the virgin pilot currently awaiting trail in the US and a more recent case at LHR.


NN,

Do you feel better now? Did the constables tell you off once? Leaving aside your petty abuse was there a point to your post?
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