Drunk Pilot

[Guest ozzie]

Some people do dumb things, 10.30 winters night, flying below LSA and parks it in a tree. Then sleeps it off in a barn. Classic.

 

http://www.wbay.com/story/16509896/2012/01/12/authorities-say-pilot-who-landed-in-trees-was-drinking

 

 

[Guest Maj Millard]

There's only one bird that flys at night and it's got a flat face and two big black eyes !.......................Maj...

 

 

[winsor68]

Bizarre! I recall reading a few years ago in NZ an instructor with student did the same thing with fatal consequence after a party.

 

 

[oneplaneboy]

Bizarre! I recall reading a few years ago in NZ an instructor with student did the same thing with fatal consequence after a party.

Yeah I remember that

 

Stupid thing to do

 

http://www.3news.co.nz/Men-drank-20-beers-before-plane-crash-CAA-investigation/tabid/419/articleID/130439/Default.aspx

 

http://www.caa.govt.nz/Accidents_and_Incidents/Accident_Reports/ZK-ZXL_Fatal.pdf

 

 

[rdarby]

So he can fly drunk, not well but still fly, and as students it took us forever to learn sober! Still, I'd rather be sober and live. I guess it shows that you can get so comfortable with the plane, or be so drunk, that you don't think of the danger.

 

You get devices fitted on cars to stop you driving if drunk. I wonder if they should put them on planes, at least airliners?

 

 

[winsor68]

I don't feel that their is a problem in Australia... Seems to be unique to Kiwis.

 

Has there been cases of FUI in Australia?

 

 

[oneplaneboy]

I don't feel that their is a problem in Australia... Seems to be unique to Kiwis.Has there been cases of FUI in Australia?

Wouldn't say unique to kiwis mate

 

http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/2006/b20060169_001.aspx

 

 

[winsor68]

It was always my understanding that CASA's DAMP policy was rushed through "just for the sake" in response to an accident involving a young charter pilot who had a few beers and partook of a "joint" the night before crashing... I would think that there are plenty of incidences where people be "under the influence" when they are tested on the morgue table but mostly I wouldn't think there are too many drongoes around who would fly from a "pixx-up"... ?

 

 

[oneplaneboy]

It was always my understanding that CASA's DAMP policy was rushed through "just for the sake" in response to an accident involving a young charter pilot who had a few beers and partook of a "joint" the night before crashing... I would think that there are plenty of incidences where people be "under the influence" when they are tested on the morgue table but mostly I wouldn't think there are too many drongoes around who would fly from a "pixx-up"... ?

Yeah there's been a few where alcohol has been found to be consumed from the night before, but yeah any amount of drinking then jumping in a plane is pretty much guaranteed a landing in coffin!