Ok, I know the rules are the rules but: I actually feel sympathy for this gentleman.
It’s as usual the press I feel contempt for, headline: PILOT 3 TIMES OVER THE LIMIT. Now 99% of the population thinks that this man was absolutely hammered.
As we know he wasn’t 3 times over the driving limit but the flying limit which puts him under the driving limit. And if you can’t drink a pint of lager before you fly an a/c or drive a car safely. You really should not be doing it.
My last point: Flying an a/c is obviously “harder” than driving a truck/bus. But thousands of them/me are on the road every day, well above the a/c flying limit. And most a/c guys have a number 2 for backup that you don’t get in your bus full
Of 50 passengers that potentially could plough into another bus with as many?
Crown court? I really have lost the will to live