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Old 6th Jan 2013, 11:31
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woodja51
 
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Not condoning any guys heading to work when they shouldnt, but just exactly how many accidents were attributable to drug or alcohol present in a pilots system... My guess is.... Almost none!

So what is the risk / consequence /probability of this issue causing an accident versus other factors we accept ( mostly) without question such as fatigue, poor training , aircraft that have design flaws with paper procedures that have to be recalled on a dark and stormy night to keep them flying ( ref Airbus) etc etc...

By the way, even though most companies have a zero level, several regulators globally have a .04 BAC in the legislation as well as a 8 hr + bottle to throttle...

So there is not an agreed position or world best practice in the first place...

Frankly give me a "chuck yeager"in a cockpit with a beer under his belt than some of the products from the continued race to the bottom training systems...

But the law is the law so that ends the rhetoric or " gedankan " experiment...
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