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A piece of advice, 2 pints could put you way over the drink drive limit.
I would agree with a zero limit, for flying or driving. However I don't make legislation.
Why the differences? As I said, try the medics for the answer to that. I would presume because the level of concentration required for flying is probably higher than it is for driving.
Ill thought out the limits may well be, but I don't think sensationalist, afterall it's only on here really that its being talked about. The press will call anyone 'drunk' who convicted of a drink driving or flying offence, irrespective of thier level of 'drunkeness', it sells papers that way.
No, the incident I refer to was not commercial, but if you think about it you can't have a piece of legislation that says if you have a PPL you can't drink, if you have a commercial one you can. Would that mean that you could drink when flying passengers but get in a cessna you can't? You would consider that wrong, so would most people.
I don't take it personaly, it's all rather amusing to me. Younger Police become older Police eventualy they get the message.