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Old 08-05-2019, 03:53 AM
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Buy a portable breathalyzer. They are like $50. If you like to partake in local flavors you will know when to knock it off. They even have apps that you put in your beverage and the alcohol content etc and it tracks your bac. Flew w someone who had one and loved it. Shows when you need to stop.


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Old 08-05-2019, 04:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Ihateusernames View Post
Buy a portable breathalyzer. They are like $50. If you like to partake in local flavors you will know when to knock it off. They even have apps that you put in your beverage and the alcohol content etc and it tracks your bac. Flew w someone who had one and loved it. Shows when you need to stop.


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If you need an App or a portable breathalyzer to tell you if you’re drinking too much, you’re drinking too much. What are you gonna do, break out your phone and show them the App as they’re arresting you?

Its pretty simple to limit yourself to a couple beers with dinner, and nothing within 12 hrs of your show time. If you can’t enjoy an overnight without more alcohol, you might have a problem you should address before it becomes a much bigger problem.
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Old 08-05-2019, 04:37 AM
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Originally Posted by TheRaven View Post
If you need an App or a portable breathalyzer to tell you if you’re drinking too much, you’re drinking too much. What are you gonna do, break out your phone and show them the App as they’re arresting you?



Its pretty simple to limit yourself to a couple beers with dinner, and nothing within 12 hrs of your show time. If you can’t enjoy an overnight without more alcohol, you might have a problem you should address before it becomes a much bigger problem.


I don’t disagree mostly. I have no problem if someone keeps track of what they are drinking. I call that responsible. Most aren’t going out to drink to get smashed. They enjoy the drink for the drinks flavors. They just happen to have alcohol. Know your limits and keeping track of what you are doing is being responsible.


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Old 08-05-2019, 06:36 AM
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If I worked for United I'd stay drunk all the time too.
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Old 08-05-2019, 06:43 AM
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Just some scuttlebutt from a European pilot(not me). This pilot mentioned certain hotels(Glasgow) who have been known to ‘alert’ security at the airport when they have reason to believe a crew was having a few the evening before a flight. He said it was common knowledge to locally based crews.

As to how many & timing, no way to qualify that. I have heard somewhat similar in Mexico when hotel employees tried to extort $$ by threatening to call the company, alcohol, mid-layover.

Of course I wouldn’t in any way condone showing up ‘hung over’, or whatever. Just mentioning for awareness. It does sorta fit the template of some of these instances.
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Originally Posted by sourdough44 View Post
Just some scuttlebutt from a European pilot(not me). This pilot mentioned certain hotels(Glasgow) who have been known to ‘alert’ security at the airport when they have reason to believe a crew was having a few the evening before a flight. He said it was common knowledge to locally based crews.

As to how many & timing, no way to qualify that. I have heard somewhat similar in Mexico when hotel employees tried to extort $$ by threatening to call the company, alcohol, mid-layover.

Of course I wouldn’t in any way condone showing up ‘hung over’, or whatever. Just mentioning for awareness. It does sorta fit the template of some of these instances.
The very reason we kicked those pasty faced, crooked toothed, queen loving, redcoats off our continent!

We should send a carrier group over there and enforce a blockade! Did we just lay down and take it when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!? This is even worse!
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Old 08-05-2019, 09:56 AM
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The very reason we kicked those pasty faced, crooked toothed, queen loving, redcoats off our continent!

We should send a carrier group over there and enforce a blockade! Did we just lay down and take it when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!? This is even worse!
Now that is funny!
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Old 08-05-2019, 10:20 AM
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If I worked for United I'd stay drunk all the time too.
You get shot down from UAL?? Or not qualified enough to get called??
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Old 08-05-2019, 10:47 AM
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The number of times that pilots have been hauled off planes and arrested, or at least made the headlines and THEN were released and exonerated is significant. I'd prefer to give them the benefit of the doubt before assuming that the press got this one right.
Everybody is innocent until being proven to be guilty. But having said that, the LAST time both members of a United cockpit crew was arrested in Glasgow on their way back to Newark (2016):

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/2...ight-n-n638971

Well, if you look them up on the FAA airman database you’ll find that one of them (the former Ca) is listed there with NO current certificates, while the former FO, is shown with only a commercial and an active CFI rating.

So I think it’s safe to tell anyone that getting arrested in Glasgow for intoxication as you are about to fly an aircraft back across the pond can DEFINITELY be hazardous to your career.
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You get shot down from UAL?? Or not qualified enough to get called??
With the comment he made, he wouldn’t have made it past the Hogan test due to immature personality disorder. He will be confined to the corporate world forever.
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