In rec.aviation.owning Mxsmanic wrote:
writes:
Both driving and flying under the influence of alcohol are illegal.
But being a drinker or smoker is not. You can drink and smoke regularly (both
of which vastly increase the likelihood of problems that may incapacitate you
in the air), and the FAA doesn't care, as long as you don't drink in the eight
hours before flying (and there's no prohibition on smoking at all, so
conceivably you could smoke in the cockpit).
Babbling nonsense.
If the smoking or drinking were to eventually cause a problem that could
become incapacitating, and that takes lots of years, the problem would
would be cause to fail the medical.
And yet, at the same time, if you've ever had, say, a bad headache, the FAA
can deny your medical.
More babbling nonsense.
You have no clue what the standards are.
There is no correlation between smoking and accident rates for either
driving or flying.
Smoking significantly increases the risk of incapacitating cardiovascular or
respiratory problems. It also increases the risk of altitude-related problems
that may be incapacitating.
More babbling nonsense.
If one develops cardiovascular or respiratory problems, they fail the
medical because they have cardiovascular or respiratory problems, not
because they smoke.
--
Jim Pennino
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