"Frank" wrote in message ...

If they were really serious about highway safety they'd give people a
'driving' test, not a drug test. Same applies to pilots.

I don't much care if you're high, liquored up, haven't slept in three
days,
or just plain incompetent. The victims are just as dead.

They might as well administer a sleep test. "How much sleep did you get
last night? Four hours?! Well, clearly you're a hazard to aviation."

So it boils down to bureaucracy and public image after all. Just making
sure. Drugs and alcohol just don't seem to be a significant source of
aviation accidents. If it's cost prohibitive to the extent that it hurts the
small-time commercial pilot, it just doesn't seem worth it.

(If it's not cost prohibitive after all, it's probably not an issue.)

-c