Mike writes:

A certain percentage of the population has serious problems with alcohol.
It shouldn't surprise anyone that pilots are not immune.

See _The Pilot_ (1980), with Cliff Robertson. As I recall, at the end of the
movie he ends up going from airline pilot to ... cropduster.

I knew controllers
who would come to work reeking of alcohol and I've seen some take drinks out
in the parking lot. I haven't seen any of that since the FAA started
mandatory alcohol testing.

Good.