Topendtorque is exactly right.
If you know a drug test is coming up you can change your behaviour prior to the test, so doing a drug test at the time of the annual medical is nonsense.
It must be random, and there must be serious consequences. Forget about complaining about the expense. If that's a concern then the battle to keep the industry as clean as possible has already been lost.
Gullibell has written what we all know to be true: The reality is there are those that are prepared to drink or take drugs and then fly. In so doing, they put themselves, the aircraft and their passengers at unnecessary and unreasonable risk. Their practices won't stop just because we think it should.
If the argument to deal with this problem is valid then it should be dealt with. Period. Saying that the problem is serious enough to be dealt with and then not doing the all things that are actually necessary to effect a valuable and discernible outcome is illogical.
Maybe the regulators should stop some of the b
t charges they do impose so that funds are available for more meaningful practices.
GP
