It's happening now in Australia; I fly for an Asian airline, and one of our guys was recently random-checked on arrival (!) in AUS after a 9 hour sector. Our crews of course have also been checked outbound. Occasionally these people will shut down activity at regional airports and check everybody who is airside.
This is the same regulator that at the start of their programme mailed out a 'Drug and Alcohol' awareness calendar to every pilot in Australia, at great cost to the taxpayer; said calendar had an entire month missing and other mistakes. The CASA proof reader must have been on something themselves...
Last edited by Captain Dart; 24th Feb 2011 at 00:08.