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Message:: [QUOTE="bbchien, post: 2733402, member: 6"]So many airmen think tis' about DL suspension.  It's about more than that.  The FAA, upon DUI will require all your documentation and that will include the PI (Box 18w).  Then you have two publically evaluable alcohol incidents.  Just because a non-DL related Pub. Intox (or it might have been a plead down, doesn't matter) doesn't get reported on it's own, doesn't mean "it doesn't count".  So arguing about it is dancing on the head of a pin. It will show up on the Criminal background search, and then see 67.107, 67.207, 67.307 for the definition of abuse. It is at the second evaluable incident.  The OP now has two and the first one even if it did not involve a motor vehicle, counts. Since "continued use in the face of adverse consequences" gives him alcohol dependence, the only way to forestall that is to show that use has ceased. "Substantiate your claim" means, private urine random test program, which meets FAA stds, at time of application, sober for 4 months...That is not a guarantee against the FAA diagnosis of alcohol dependence, there are things like: ToleranceLIfestyle centered on the use of alcoholBlackoutsDrinking to prevent a withdrawal syndrome ...but by not addressing the obvious criteria in the prior paragraph, pretty much seals an airman's fate..... Bruce[/QUOTE]

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