I would write the rule like we have at our field: no alcohol on field premises at any time. Whatever rule written to permit it under certain circumstances would eventually get bent or have enough "gray" in it that it would be inneffectual . All any of our clubs, or our hobby in general needs, is an occurrence when someone is seriously hurt at the same time alcohol was at the location . The press loves the spectacular, and whether one has to do with the other (injury/alcohol) will be determined by the point of view of someone who knows nothing of the real circumstance, or wants to exercise control of another by regulating them out of existence.

Don't get me wrong. I enjoy a beer as much as the next guy, but I'll wait until I get home. We owe it to our fellow club members and to our flying"brothers" everywhere to exercise civic and personal responsibility. Even if you're a spectator, you need your complete faculties around the field, and don't even conceive drinking so much as a single beer if you're participating. It's no different from flying a full-size plane; you have to be 100% mentally and physically or someone can get hurt.

Get as looped as you want at home, but let's not open any cracks that regulators outside our hobby can get their fingers in. We have enough to worry about from other fronts to keep our hobby alive and well (and sober)