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wrote in message ... On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 02:51:45 GMT, Jerry Springer wrote: I believe that any pilot that flies drunk should be hung out to dry by any means possible. Those two A**H*** jerks were responsible for a whole lot of lives. I would hate to be on the airline that had a drunk pilot or two flying it. I don't even want a drunk pilot flying anywhere around the airspace I am flying my RV-6 in. How can two people that are intelligent enough and spent years getting to the positions they were in blow it like that? Jerry Course Bernie this is off topic for this newsgroup. :-) Yes, off topic, but permit this one final thought. Institutionalized alcoholism is a fact of military flying. Officer's Clubs, Stag bars (flight suit only), rolling dice for who buys ... it's a macho pilot thing where the millitary will deny a problem exists ... but in fact, they serve serve up the booze and enable the whole drinking culture. Most airline types are ex-military. Where did you get your statistics? It was my understanding that the current rank of airline pilots are about 50% military. Military has a "drinking culture". You can draw the connections. Not to defend what they did ... but perhaps to explain how they might have gotten there. timepilot I used to drink alot when I was young, but don't anymore. What the millitary members did while they were young has very little do with current behavior. -- Jim in NC |
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Jerry Springer wrote:
I believe that any pilot that flies drunk should be hung out to dry by any means possible. Those two A**H*** jerks were responsible for a whole lot of lives. I would hate to be on the airline that had a drunk pilot or two flying it. I don't even want a drunk pilot flying anywhere around the airspace I am flying my RV-6 in. How can two people that are intelligent enough and spent years getting to the positions they were in blow it like that? Jerry Course Bernie this is off topic for this newsgroup. :-) Boy Jerry's right. No drinking within 50 feet of the airplane. Everybody knows you can't drink your Kahlu'a and coffie and fly at the same time. Why it's even hard to drink and steer on the ground. You could hit a bump in the taxiway, spill you drink, it would drip down to the cannon-plug connector on the nose steering hydro powerpack and drown everyone on the reef taxiway at HNL. Thank God airport security is there to again protect America from tradgedy. Instead of profiling Mid-Eastern men carring Korans with crazed looks in their eyes, security should spend their time sniffing the breath of airline pilots. I agree. Just look at all the lives lost in the airline world due to the pilots being drunk at the wheel! What? The're arn't any? Well, ahem... in that case... It makes a great headline right? Keeps ex-gang members and ilegal aliens employed guarding our airports at minimum wage and 100% turnover. Oh thank God the TSA and 35 Skymarshals that are awake are protecting us.. To be continued. pacplyer |
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You could hit a bump in the taxiway, spill you drink...
Spill your drink? That's alcohol abuse! |
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