Idiot for the day

The BBC has an article about a guy about to lose his job:

A video has been released of a hovercraft pilot attempting to land on the Isle of Wight with a blood-alcohol level nearly three times the limit.
More than thirty passengers were on the Hovertravel vessel when pilot Richard Pease collapsed after missing the pad at Ryde in June of 2014. A colleague was forced to take the controls from Pease, fifty, who admitted at a previous court hearing of being master of a hovercraft, having consumed excess alcohol under the Railways and Transport Safety Act of 2003. The footage shows another pilot having to board the craft in order to land it safely. The passengers are eventually disembarked and paramedics can be seen entering the hovercraft to treat the drunk pilot.
Pease, from Northwood on the island, was earlier jailed for eight months at Newport Crown Court.

Rico says let's see, the guy admits to driving a large, dangerous, and expensive public vehicle and gets eight months in jail, but they let him drive again...