On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 08:32:48 -0800, Papa3 wrote:

There is a study I saw years ago regarding performance of fighter pilots
both drunk and hungover. IIRC this was done in Sweden at some point in
the 80s. Couldn't find it with a quick google search, but this one did
come up: "Using a repeated measures counterbalanced design, the authors
had 10 Navy P3-C Orion pilots fly two carefully designed simulated
flights under control (no hangover) and hangover conditions. For the
control condition, pilots drank no alcohol within 48 hours before the
simulated flight. For the hangover condition, they flew 14 hours after
drinking enough ethanol mixed with diet soft drinks to attain a blood
alcohol concentration of 100 mg/dl. Pilot performance was worse in the
hangover condition on virtually all measures but significantly worse on
three of six variance measures and one of six performance measures. The
results indicate that caution should be exercised when piloting an
aircraft 14 hours or less after ingesting similar quantities of
alcohol.

Interesting, especially with the "8hrs bottle to throttle" quoted earlier.

FWIW, as one of those flying from a club with a well-stocked bar
(patronised after hangar packing is complete and everything put away),
I've always heard the safe post-alcohol no-fly time quoted as

"Twelve hours bottle to throttle"


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