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G26ster wrote:

alphonso wrote:I personally practice the airplane pilot's rule "twelve hours between the bottle and the throttle" when it comes to drinking and then carrying a gun.

That's 4 hours more than FAR 91.17 requires (8 hours bottle to throttle), but hey, your rule is safer

I was referring to the little known clause FAR 91.17 (a)(1)(i). It's mere existence is sensitive, and it's exact wording is highly classified. In summary though, it imposes a 12 hour limit for those of us who fly the really really fast ones in and out of Area 51. You know, ones like The Vincent Black Shadow...

I personally practice the airplane pilot's rule "twelve hours between the bottle and the throttle" when it comes to drinking and then carrying a gun.

I do this in part because of the vagaries of the Texas law for intoxication and CHL. I wish the law was more precisely spelled out at .08 percent--or any other number. Once and a while I would like to have a beer with my BBQ or Mexican food at at restaurant, but will not because of the possibility of being stopped with alcohol on my breath.

Does anyone know (or care to hazard a guess) why the rule for drinking and carrying was not as precisely spelled out as the drinking and driving rules?