Pilot arrested
10-27-2016 | 10:09 PM
#111
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Could have happened to anyone? Uhh...pretty sure that won't happen to 99.9995% of us on overnights. And its not something that "happened" "to" him. It was something he did. Getting mugged while walking back to the hotel from the grocery store happens to you. Getting drunk, Breaking into a fire chiefs car while naked with a hard on in the middle of the woods doesn't happen to you.
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10-28-2016 | 09:08 AM
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10-28-2016 | 09:14 AM
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My airline has a MAX average line value of 88 hours. And any line above 95 hours has to be approved by the scheduling committee. And I thought that wasn't that great.
10-28-2016 | 10:30 AM
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Clearly you have never flown a 12 day international trip.
10-28-2016 | 10:45 AM
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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
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.
10-28-2016 | 02:13 PM
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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
10-28-2016 | 02:23 PM
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My comments were about addiction itself. The part of my brain that is responsible for empathy was never really developed. I automatically default to telling people how stupid their decisions were and that they should of done whatever differently.
10-28-2016 | 09:41 PM
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As far as how much this guy had to drink, just put that aside. Here's what I'm confuse about. He probably had a good hour or more from the time he got up to the time he went through security. He had plenty of time to call in sick or find a way to take himself off the trip, but choose not to. Having to explain to your base manager or chief pilot why you didn't report for the flight at an outstation, would be better than what this guy will have to go through.
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