Pot Smokin' Pilots

[minitour]

Re: Smoked pot in the last two years.

Right----ok---uh huh---

But anyway--not my point.

Then what's your point?

More along my line of thinking--

Following the rules now because someone decided to take up aviation has exactly what to do with how they acted and what they did two years ago?

Two years is a long time. Things change. People change.

-mini

 

[Douglas]

Re: Smoked pot in the last two years.

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer apparently.

He is sharp and a great student pilot, but young and turning a new leaf.

 

[Mariano]

Re: Smoked pot in the last two years.

Heck yeah...that's the kind of attitude I want in the people who fly my family around!

That's not an attitude, is reality.

 

[Murdoughnut]

Based on the thread title, I thought this was a M&G

I keeeeeeed!

 

[TFaudree_ERAU]

The correct answer would have been:

"No sir, it has been two years and a day"

 

[minitour]

The correct answer would have been:

"No sir, it has been two years and a day"

L O freakin L

-mini

 

[Aero_Engineer]

Why would someone even ask a question like that?
You know the answer already, and if someone still is not clear on that they are definitely in the wrong line of work.

 

[WoH]

Re: Smoked pot in the last two years.

What was your question again?

How the FAA treats medical marijuana

 

[texas_pilot]

Re: Smoked pot in the last two years.

How the FAA treats medical marijuana

Not anything they want to confront.


The only way I understand they can test semi accurately is by hair analysis- which doesn't give the 'under the influence' response they like.
Can't test- it's in ya for several weeks- you're guilty.
Develop a better test, allow them to tax it's use- you're set for life!!

 

[derg]

Re: Smoked pot in the last two years.

Here's probably the best advice.

If you do, and you want to be a professional pilot. Stop. Yeah yeah, safer than booze, yadda yadda yadda, blah blah blah, but if you want to do the work, you have to sacrifice and no life's not necessarily fair.

If you don't, and you want to be a professional pilot, don't stat. Because then you have the quandry of "Do or do I not perjure myself if ever asked the question Have you used marijuana?"

It doesn't matter how you feel about the question, nor does it matter how you feel about the safety or lack thereof of recreational drug use, but the facts are that it's not compatible with professional aviation.

I have a former student from my CFI days that turned up with a traceable amount in ground school, swore up and down it had been a long period of time since he last used and was summarily fired then his career came to an abrupt end.

 

[texas_pilot]

I'm Whistle clean, but a guy I recommended for a job turned up positive. Denied everything- something in my food- Pulleaze!
Who doesn't know the constraints and knows not to show up for a pre-employment???
I haven't spoken much since, but I thinks that is FOREVER.

 

[seaav8tor]

The public will not accept nor should they commercial pilots using illegal drugs. What you think is ok, not ok, does not matter. Use illegal drugs, no job.

If you want to smoke pot become a High School math teacher for the Vancouver school district. Retirement, medical, summers off, job security. The school district does not care; The students will think you are cool and the parents will be happy to know their children are being influenced by an illegal drug user.

 

[mtsu_av8er]

If you want to smoke pot become a High School math teacher for the Vancouver school district. Retirement, medical, summers off, job security. The school district does not care; The students will think you are cool and the parents will be happy to know their children are being influenced by an illegal drug user.

Link? Application?

 

[mtsu_av8er]

Wait - must you be good at math?

 

[derg]

Nah, I went to Riddle. Math was a joke!

"Now class, 2 times 3 is... wait, y'all don't care, go fly!"

 

[seaav8tor]

Wait - must you be good at math?

No,

That's where the pot comes in. :bandit:

 

[ChasenSFO]

I don't do it, but literally almost everyone I know has at least tried it.

I choose not to get into that stuff, but thats my choice, if you smoke when you're younger and then mature and move on with your career and quit, no harm there. I have many friends at the airlines who used to be heavy on the stuff but grew up and stopped smoking it when they went for their ratings.

However, lying about it to an AME...thats really not a good idea. Especially defending those who lie about it.

 

[A300Capt]

What I can't figure out is how a person, knowing or wanting to be a pilot, would smoke dope--knowing that it is potentially a "deal breaker". Do people actually think things through anymore?

You mean the "Instant gratification and everyone deserves a trophy" generation being able to think things through to a positive end result?!? That would be impossible...they're self proclaimed victims of society's rules and can't possibly be held accountable for their own actions!:dunno:

Sorry...I'm just a little cynical in the morning before my coffee.

 

[WoH]

It's easy to say that everyone doesn't deserve a trophy when you're the kinda person who always got one.

Also, we only figured that maybe everyone deserves a trophy when folks who never got trophies started walking into work and shooting people.

 

[SJM]

IIRC, there's a fine, of up to 250,000 for falsifying info on your medical?

Does it ever actually happen?