Flip Flop
The point is: we are talking about a situation where consuming a only a small amount of alcohol will end up putting you at or just over the 0.2 promille limit the morning after, yet that amount is highly unlikely to render anyone 'unfit'.
There are a great number of other stressors that have a far greater detrimental effect on the 'fitness', performance and ability of pilots to do their jobs....
It is an extraordinarily unusual job....as are those of the guys and girls in ATC.....
More allowance must be made for some semblance to the way others outside of the industry including your friends and family live their lives.
The constant erosion of terms and conditions, reduction of rest periods and increases in hours all mean that as pilots, crews, and ATC - or for that matter anybody working in a safety-critical environment - we have increasing levels of stress + pressure.
What i have is a job that makes it very difficult to live anything like a normal life when i have time off downroute...
As quality of life in the job deteriorates, so does flightsafety....