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Old 10-24-2009 | 06:39 PM
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Default RE: New/Revised AMA Safety Code item:

It does lack enforceability. Here in San Antonio we have a rogue flyers group that flies every weekend with plenty of beer, and they're often three sheets gone by the time they're supposed to drive home. Kind of scary, and they've invited me to fly there. From what I've gathered through conversations with them, the majority of them have been asked to leave local clubs over their drinking.

Drinkers can be a fearsome bunch, they climb into a car because they're sure they are "okay to drive' and then kill people. Drinking alters one's perception, one person becomes bulletproof, and another becomes crazy and reckless, you just never know.

Drugs? Pretty much the same thing, it's all about how you want to feel, and everybody and everything becomes secondary to that.

I agree that's one that could use some more refinement to be made effective.

Jimbo

Coming toward you, rightside-up or upside-down, the low wing gets the stick. That's the LAW, and it never changes, EVER.