- Drugs, Alcohol, Flying & YOU -

Attends a talk entitled as " Drugs, Alcohol,Flying & YOU" at night at Crew Residence. Wonder why must have the talk at night, aih. The talk is conducted by Dr. Khairul Anuar b. Md Nor from Malaysia Airlines System ( MAS ). Basically the talk is about the drugs and alcohol, how these could affect you and your flying career. Some sort of common drugs have been introduced to us such as cannabis, Ats, Opiates, cocaine and etc.
What are the alcohol and drugs to people? I believe people always treat it as a method of unwind, relax, or as a social ice-breaker or even absurd, as the right of passage into adulthood.
The "flying" is a highly demanding cognitive and psychomotor task in an inhospitable environment with exposure to various source of stress. It does need 100% attention during flying. But when alcohol, drugs and flying come across, it will be a deadly combination which alter one's mood by decreasing inhabitation.
What kind of effects that will get with consumption of drugs and alcohol? Effects will be such like sedative, hypnotic and addicting, impair judgement, behavioral changes, undesirable hangover effects and etc.
In fact, in the Federal Aviation Regulation, there's a statement of law regard this issue.
No person may operate/attempt to operate an aircraft if in the case of :-
-within 8hours bottle to throttle
-while under the influence
-with blood content of more than 0.04% alcohol
-while using any drug that adversely affected safety.


-drew-