On Aug 1, 12:31*pm, wrote:
On Aug 1, 1:20*pm, gatt wrote:



Ol Shy & Bashful wrote:

On Jul 31, 9:54 pm, "ceaser28" u45176@uwe wrote:
Geez ....some of the posters make it out to be like you are a
stumbling falling down commode hugging drunk and you should be
pilloried for ever allowing evil alcohol to touch your lips.

I was thinking that if drinking misbehavior as a young adult was a
limiting factor in aviation, a whole hell of a lot of Navy and Marine
Corps veterans would never be allowed near an airplane. *Pappy
Boyington, for example.

Lots of people make mistakes when they're young and immortal. Assuming
it was just a simple offense and not some sort of crime, the test of
character is going to be whether the behavior was curbed or allowed to
continue.

-c

Consider this. You are a hiring authority, and you are examining the
paperwork of a number of prospects for a piloting job. Assume you've
done due dilligence so you know about the DUI, and further assume you
know it costs upwards of say $100,000 to take a new ATR pilot and
integrate him into your system.

You're making, in effect, a hundred thousand dollar bet on your
decision. Too many bad bets and your boss is not trust your judgement.
There is a small chance, of course, that one of the pilots you hire
will be involved in an accident, and you can be sure the hiring
criteria you used will be used by some lawyer to heap fault on your
airline. Are you going to be nice guy and give the kid a chance, or
are you going with an equally qualified applicant with a clean
record?

That is part of the reality in making hiring decisions. Guys and gals
who rise to the level where they are the decision makers on these
matters tend not to make rash decisions.

This argument only works if there is evidence that suggests that a
prior DUI conviction leads to a greater chance of getting into an
aviation accident. Do you have any kind of evidence to suggest this?

Remember, there are lots of people who have clean driving records, no
DUI's, good high school grades, etc etc etc, yet have still crashed an
airplane. At the same time, many successful people, in aviation as
well as the rest of the world, have gone on to do well despite a DUI
in their past.