Drunk/criminal pilots

Noooo! FBOhotties has been removed! They don't even have "line guys gone wild" anymore!

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Derg said:
Clickbait.

I think a way better and much more fresh clickbait article that Fox should write is something like "When your airline pilot goes to the hotel, there's wireless internet, what they're browsing late at night WILL SHOCK YOU" and then go into the 'tubes, the 'hubs, etc.

"Internet flesh monger at night, FLYING YOUR CHILDREN TO DISNEY THE NEXT DAY and airlines and hotels sit idly by…"
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This deserves this.

 
From ALPA:

RECENT NEWS REPORTS OF PILOT SUBSTANCE ABUSE ARE INACCURATE

You may have seen a story on Fox News this week discussing substance-abuse violations by pilots based on Freedom of Information Act, aka FOIA, reports. Unfortunately, the story contains a number of inaccuracies. ALPA plans to respond to the story to correct it and put it in a proper perspective.

First, the article implies that all of the pilots who experienced these issues are airline pilots. That is not true for the following reasons:

  • Based on our discussions with the FAA, we know that the FOIA request was for pilots with a commercial rating certificate and above. Obviously, not all of these commercial-rated pilots are airline pilots. In fact, Congress established a law (PL 111-216) that required all airline pilots to have an ATP certificate. Effective August 1, 2013, FAA added new regulations consistent with that law that enhanced the qualifications of the ATP and established the Restricted ATP (R-ATP) as the minimum pilot certificate required to be an airline pilot.
  • The statistics that show that there were 64 pilots with at least a commercial certificate who failed screenings for drugs/alcohol between 2010 and 2015. Again, there is no way to determine whether the pilots were employed by an airline based on the released data, but we know for certain that a commercial certificated pilot who tested positive for drugs/alcohol on or after August 1, 2013 would not be an airline pilot.
The article also references the 2015 rate of 0.2 percent positive tests for drugs/alcohol, a statistic that encompassed all aviation professions—including controllers, mechanics, dispatchers, ground security staff, pilots, and others—so it does not necessarily mean an equal distribution of the rate of violations by individuals in all of those groups.

The truth is that the frequency of positive drug/alcohol tests from pilots is significantly less than such tests for the general population. This is due in part to the proactive Pilot Assistance programs that ALPA MECs have in place to recognize behavioral issues and provide help, support, and intervention before a problem enters the work place.

Additionally, the article makes no distinctions between pilot behaviors on-duty vs. off-duty. This is important because when on-duty the aviation system has a myriad of check and balances to preclude operating an aircraft under the influence, which includes alerts by fellow employees.
 
mshunter said:
I get why they should, but what I said was partially in jest because it's like acknowledgeing the behavior of a school brat. It was made out of frustration.

Also, @Derg
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Because they did.

Seriously.

If you sit idly by, voices in the crowd murmur "Why won't you do anything!"
If you make a stand, other voices in the crowd murmur "Why do you even bother?"
 
Federal authorities have arrested and charged an Irvine man who flew a private jet with eight passengers after his pilot’s license had been revoked.
On April 8, Arnold Gerald Leto III, 36, flew a twin-engine Falcon 10 turbojet from Van Nuys Airport to Las Vegas, said federal prosecutor Mark Williams.
His pilot’s license was revoked in January for unknown reasons and was not certified to fly the turbojet.
“Even if he had his license, it still did not authorize him to operate the twin turbojet plane,” he said.
“The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) requires pilots to be rated and trained for that plane (Falcon 10),” Williams said. “He was taking a large amount of passengers and charging significant amounts of money to do so.”
Prosecutors believe Leto also flew the plane without a co-pilot, as required under FAA regulations.
Leto is the president of Irvine-based Aviation Financial Services Inc. and flies private jets for a living, Williams said.
He could not be reached Wednesday afternoon.
Authorities believe Leto has operated other flights since having his license revoked, Williams said.
“We have evidence of him flying more than once without a valid license,” Williams said.
He faces up to three years in federal prison.
A former Newport Beach pilot was charged in January of flying two Alaska Airlines flights in 2014 while intoxicated.
On June, 20, 2014, David Arntson, 60, was randomly tested minutes after his flight from Portland, Ore., to John Wayne Airport. His blood alcohol concentration level read 0.142 percent.
He quit his job before he could be fired. His case is still pending.
Original article can be found here: http://www.ocregister.com
 
Derg said:
I'm glad their addressed it. Nip it in the bud now or having to prune an overgrown idiotic "bougainvillea of willful misinformation" later.
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I'm glad they did, however the same amount of people that saw/read the (clickbaity) fox news article won't read the same ALPA publication.

"Pilots getting drunk and flying? Oh yeah, must happen all the time!"
(Counter point with facts)
"I'm not gunna read that trash, time to see what Drumpf's up to!"
 
scooter2525 said:
I'm glad they did, however the same amount of people that saw/read the (clickbaity) fox news article won't read the same ALPA publication.

"Pilots getting drunk and flying? Oh yeah, must happen all the time!"
(Counter point with facts)
"I'm not gunna read that trash, time to see what Drumpf's up to!"
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Truth.
 
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