Scary but true story!

[jillsy]

So on Memorial Day, I was at a picnic. As I was packing up to leave, I met a couple who was talking to my husband. The wife asks her husband if he'd like another beer. He hesitates and says, "Ok. I sure hope work doesn't call me into tonight." Jokingly I ask, "You're not a cop are you?" (Thinking what could be worse than a drunk cop with a deadly weapon?) He answers, "No. I'm a pilot."

Maybe driving IS safer!

[Nancy-ID]

Originally Posted by jillsy

So on Memorial Day, I was at a picnic. As I was packing up to leave, I met a couple who was talking to my husband. The wife asks her husband if he'd like another beer. He hesitates and says, "Ok. I sure hope work doesn't call me into tonight." Jokingly I ask, "You're not a cop are you?" (Thinking what could be worse than a drunk cop with a deadly weapon?) He answers, "No. I'm a pilot."

Maybe driving IS safer!

Well, I was told by a shrink (nother story), who was the shrink for Pan Am that most Pilots are really into the juice.

[wade clark]

Okay, after reading this I'll never fly again! Unless they let me in the cockpit, where the real party is!!! It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop!

[jillsy]

So, they won't let you take nail clippers on a plane - that would be dangerous. But the pilot operating a machine that speeds thru the air, cross-country, in bad weather, thousands of feet in the air, over the ocean and mountains, responsible for hundreds of lives may have had a few?!

Note to self: remember to pack a parachute! And you might wanna tie a few on yourself before take-off!

[Kenny_S]

No different than a drunk Doctor operating on you! A drunk is a drunk no matter what their occupation is.

[whitecree]

Scary, indeed. But notice he was worried about being called in to work?

Most pilots live by the "12 hours between bottle and throttle" rule. Most commercial pilots are very professional and take great care and think not only while on the job, but before and after as well.

I wouldn't worry too much. Even if a pilot got totally pie-eyed, there is a co-pilot and an autopilot.

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

Originally Posted by whitecree

Scary, indeed. But notice he was worried about being called in to work?

Most pilots live by the "12 hours between bottle and throttle" rule. Most commercial pilots are very professional and take great care and think not only while on the job, but before and after as well.

I wouldn't worry too much. Even if a pilot got totally pie-eyed, there is a co-pilot and an autopilot.

Yeh, unless he is a "bush" pilot! lolApple

[squbrigg]

Easy for you to say Whitecree.....don't worry....last flight I took the co-pilot looked to be about 12. As for auto-pilot.....he still has to get us off the ground!!! I'd rather not have to pick my luggage out of my a**, surrounded by aircraft parts on the side of some runway!!! :)

I think I'll walk from now on!

Bob

[Anthony Filetti]

...yeah but what are we gonna do about all of the drunk carvers???!

[jillsy]

As long as the drunk carvers aren't chasing anyone around with a gouge, I think we're pretty safe!