I went out at the weekend to the football with mates, now during a full day I drank nothing but Alcohol, im on over 30 units without counting shots.

So how many units do I count shots as? :confused:

Funnily enough, one of the things that can cause you to incorrectly fail a test are these mouth washes!

While on this subject, I read a very interresting article a couple of years ago in a good quality magazine saying that foods high in poppyseed content such as muffins, bagels, etc can cause a drugs test failure due to the inability of these tests to tell them apart from opium. They ran tests and had people failing on scarily low consumption levels.

They had a show about that on sky few months back, they managed to get a vicar to fail a drugs test after only eating bagels all day long.

What I would say about he mirror is, it has worked hard in past years to move away from trashy red top paper market, however that peice is a shocker.

I am not going to say anything 😮

Pilots’ bad breath arrests prompt hygiene review

An airline wants cockpit crew to freshen up their act – after it turned out two pilots accused of being drunk on duty just had bad breath.

Virgin Atlantic now fears the oral hygiene of its flying staff is jeopardising its reputation.

Twice police have been called to a flight minutes before take-off following reports of drunk pilots.

Hundreds of passengers watched aghast as the cockpit member was escorted off the jet in handcuffs.

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An incident at Heathrow in April was investigated but the pilot later cleared when – according to a Virgin spokeswoman – he was found to suffer from halitosis.

But the airline was rocked again last month when police led a 42-year-old first officer away from a Miami-bound A340-600.

The 266-passenger plane was taxiing towards the runway when another airline worker raised the alarm after reportedly smelling alcohol on his breath.

He was arrested under Section 94 of the Railways and Transport Act 2003 but again tests revealed he was simply suffering from halitosis.

A Virgin source said: “It’s more than a little embarrassing for this to have happened twice now. It makes terrible headlines and might put off people flying with us.

“We are seriously considering ordering our pilots to freshen up in the cockpit in terms of their hygiene. We might even be forced to include mints as part of our compulsory uniform.”

An airline spokesman said: “We can confirm the first officer arrested on October 28, following an allegation at Heathrow, will not be charged with any offence.

“Blood test results showed the pilot was under the legal alcohol limit for aviation workers and therefore, as no offence was committed, no charges will be brought.

“The pilot is now expected to resume his duties at the airline.”

[email]Stephen.Moyes@Mirror.Co.Uk[/email]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2007/11/26/fresh-airways-89520-20160952/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7110630.stm

Yet again the bandwagon got it wrong.

1L.

It was reported in the manner of which the story deserved.

World Peace and of course boxing day football 😮

This made a national newspaper today, not great advert for Flybe.

I’m afraid not at all really. The walk would require about a 10 minute stretch along a busy dual carriageway with no pavement! All together it’s about an hour walk from the terminal, as they’re taken at the RWY05 end which is the complete opposite end to the terminal.

Cheers anyway, I would do a trip report for the flights but I dont want to waste peoples time reading such boring trips.

Prestwick is nice now, which surpried me.