The color blindness issue is probably made worse by the extreme brightness in the cockpit causing the LED colors to wash out.
Personally I am mildly blue-green colorblind, and it is worst when in bad lighting conditions particularly with artificial light (which is usually yellowish for incandescent bulbs). I've never had a problem with keeping the blue part of the scene above and the green part below while flying though! :-) On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 11:44, Peter Stephenson wrote: > I too found out I was partially colourblind when going for my PPL in 1980. > Had to do the latern test and passed it so am a mild case of red/green > differentiation. I do electrical work and have absolutely no difficulty > with coloured wires. I think telecom techies have a wider colour variety to > deal with than electricians. > > As a medical GP, I administer the colour tests to truckies and look at the > Isihara tests regularly and can see the numbers with difficulty but they do > not stick out like the proverbial male appendages which I presume normal > colour perceptors do. > > PeterS > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kittel, Stephen W (ETSA)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." > <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 9:59 AM > Subject: RE: [Aus-soaring] colours > > > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > > >From: Wayne Carter > > > > Snip of Waynes story... > > > > I should probably not pursue a career in > > >electronics, as colored wires are common and might prove > > >expensive to get wrong. ... > > > > Strangely enough, coming from an electrical background, I have met at > > least two electricians who were colour blind who knew it and would > > openly admit it. My feeling is that there are probably many more I have > > met, who kept quiet about it or just didn't know themselves. Both of > > them at the time (like me) were also into electronics in a fairly big > > way and it was normal work progression to pick up some electronics > > skills anyway (it was in a power station). Neither of them had any > > trouble with wires as far as I could tell. The only "handicap" was that > > one of them had difficulty (but he could still do it) reading the colour > > codes on small resistors. > > > > As far as coping strategies, my (uninformed) guess would be that > > depending on the type of colour blindness and severity (which I assume > > can vary) some may not even have "strategies" as such. I don't believe > > the two electricians I mentioned earlier did anything special. > > > > >From Allan's message: > > "I do, though, still see most variations of red and green as somthing > > that I identify as red and green, but clearly I don't see it the same as > > you "normal" people do, either as colour or as intensity." > > > > But then again, as a "normal" person I don't know and can't know what > > other "normal" people percieve as these colours/intensities either. We > > can only agree what that colour is called. (phenomenology and bomb > > twenty, anyone?) :-) > > > > > > > > Regards > > SWK > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Aus-soaring mailing list > > [email protected] > > To check or change subscription details, visit: > > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
