There is an easy solution!
I saw a programme on the Japanese rail network. Every time the train drivers signed in for work they had to blow into an Alcohol detector.
Surely the same could happen with pilots? it does not matter whether you are dry, an alcoholic, or recovered alcoholic.
If you don't pass the test you don't climb into the aircraft.
Simple really follow the rail network system at least you will be clean for the duration of the flight!
it would be quite easy passing airside through security for crews to blow into such a device as used on the railway system in Japan.
That only took less than a minute showing they were clear of Alcohol and fit to drive the trains.
Then it would not matter if the pilot had a drink problem as it would eliminate any pilot taking the controls of an aircraft while still under the influence and eliminate any worries for airlines employing recovered alcoholics that they may lapse into their old ways.
Pace
Last edited by Pace; 25th Jan 2014 at 09:31.