An Unexpected Finding Among Commercial Pilots

Big John wrote in
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On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:39:56 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
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Mxsmanic wrote in
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John Mazor writes:

If it is habitual and not a rare event, then yes, but you
didn't specify that.

Is daily consumption of alcohol habitual?



This from someone who lives in France.

In fact, until fairly recently, French pilots were allowed to have a
glass of wine with theiir dinner inflight..



Fjukkwit.

Bertie
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Bertie

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I was liaison aboard the French Aircraft Carrier, Joan D'Arc (sp) and
they had two 20,000 gallon stainless tanks built into ship for wine.
Crew drank 1000 liters of wine each day.

Just glad they were not driving a super tanker.

They figured the wine would last to Australia and there they told me
they would fill the tanks with Aussie beer to go the rest of the way
home to France )

From my experience, the French turn a blind eye to drinking

They did, but that's all gone now. JARS put an end to that.

Someone did an article in Flying or Air progress years ago where they
reckoned that someone could learn to fly drunk and get to reasonable
competence provided they were drunk 24/7.
Why they looked into this I have no idea, but they actually took someone
who could already fly and started him off from scratch again teaching
him while he was pie eyed.
I have met a guy or two that could have saved them the trouble.


Bertie