Bring back the old days when the skippers often had a sharpener on the last leg home. & landing drinks were the norm. As for bottle to throttle, well as long as you got back to the hotel to change that was ok. Oh & it was ok as long as you could walk, not neccessarly in a straight line.
Yes flights did go like that, but more to the point aircraft were not crashing because of it. Obviously pilots were made of sterner stuff then.
BUT!!! That was then, the world has changed & knowledge of the possible consequences and realization of potential catastroughy. Also modern a/c need much more management rather than seat of the pants stuff.
I am amazed that pilots still take the risk of being over the limit, considering the resultant outcome of being found out. However the limits being so low I guess some think they will be ok by then that seems to be the problem, rather than being actually too drunk to operate. Somehow we need to educate and care for those individuals who can not fathom their limit.
Maybe a test machine on report would be good, without predjudice would work.
1. You would not get someone over the limit operating
2. Those individuals who are found to be over the limit would soon learn not to drink prior to duty.
A whole lot safer than the present system of relying on coleaugues security etc thinking they can smell drink on the breath.