Typhoon Pilots 'unfit for flying' Sent Home

[jamesdevice]

"Hence the fact that about 20 of them were out on a bender that night. "

hey this gets better and better. Are we to assume that all 20 were pilots / aircrew? Were they ALL off-duty for the next few days?
And fine leadership skills by the two who got caught.

And just imagine the headlines in the Gaddafi Times if one of these participants had screwed up on a mission:
"Pissed pork-eating pilots paveway'd primary school playground" or similar

[The Old Fat One]

So we're agreed. Pilots who are on operations and who are discovered drunk in a public place for whatever reason - be it stress related, cultural indoctrination, institutionalised stupidity or simply an inability to control themselves - are not to be lauded as 'professional' or 'excellent' pilots, or even tolerated as 'unlucky' pilots. They are poor pilots, and we shouldn't have to share the skies with them.

And there you have it.

Replace the word "operations" with the word "duty" and you would have the agreement of every true aviator on the planet.

But either because many of you on here do not know/understand the rules and regs of being on duty in the military, or because some have their own, somewhat sanctimonious, interpretation of when it is OK to drink, we get this endless entirely subjective debate about an event most of us don't have a scoobies about.

Just change that little word HJ and we can all agree and then foxtrot oscar to the scruffs for a couple of large ones.