Scott,
Aviation is all about risk management... if you don't want to expose yourself to risk.. then stay on the ground and don't get airborn.
I am expecting that the guys in front are professionals...risk management? Since when a pilot "legally over the limit" is part of risk management? The reason why he went to jail is because he was drunk on duty, and risk management does not contemplate that.
Charlie,
What if both pilots are incapacitated? Have a third on board?
You have willing eliminated a protection layer! So please spare us about the limits of redundancies. Is NOT such case when you deliberately change the redundancies of the systems.
The guy was "legally over the limit" on duty, he played guilty as charged. End of the story.
Is none of your business if I done 71 mph or 72 mph on the motorway! While if you are legally over the limit on duty and I am paxing on such aircraft you are putting me at risk.
in trying to set intoxication 'limits' that are legally enforceable.
The reasons why are not set to zero is because the limits shall be enforceable.