Originally Posted by
Cajun11
The amount of blind excuse making for this jacka@$ is befuddling. Nobody held a gun to this guy's head and forced him to get drunk enough to wreak of booze the next morning. Nobody is perfect but there's a line between honest mistake/learn from it type actions and being just flat out stupid. If you want to show up to work trashed then work somewhere where it isn't national news when you get caught. SKW and 'drunk pilot arrested' isn't a headline I enjoy seeing on news feeds. This sense of entitlement and "hey man, you don't know what he's going through, you're not perfect either" attitude is BS IMO. Let's all come together, hold hands, and send up thoughts and prayers for this pour soul that he gets the treatment he needs and can come back stronger than ever...give me a break
Cajun, hope you never make an error in judgement, or if you do it will not be on the news. If you watched the video, that individual absolutely knew about what can happen to an individual under the influence, but it still happened to him. He was a naval flight surgeon.
As pilots we get lots of information on what to do and what not to do, but yet pilots still do it. Good luck in your career.