I attended a lecture a couple of weeks ago by the man that actually did the work on the drink-fly limit (Professor Charles Billings). He said that at the limit for drink-driving in the UK, pilots flying real planes made mistakes that, unsupervised, would likely have led to catastrophic failures and probable crashes. That work was done in the 1960s, and the limits still stand today for very good reason.
For MagnusP - just for information, alcohol has no affinity for binding to haemoglobin, so isn't a competitor for oxygen even at altitude.
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