How about changes be made so that colour coding/general systems are changed
so that colour blind people *can* distinguish between them? Changing to
red/blue would help with 99% of those who are colourblind (the Protanopia
and Deuteranopia affected people, which is upwards of 99% of colourblind
people - Tritanopia is the cause for some 0.001% of people).

I'd be interested to know how many colour blind pilots are out there - I
think the statistic I heard is 25% of Western males and 10% of the world's
population of males have some severity of colour blindness, although for
many of them it's so slight they don't know - I personally work with a guy
who never knew until he applied for a position in the ADF.

It's pretty depressing (albeit understandable) when you're automatically
excluded from a slew of jobs because of something you were born with - for
me it was commercial pilot, SAPOL, MFS, half the jobs in the ADF, lab
technician, just to name a few. It's more frusturating when you feel that
being colour blind wouldn't matter, or if a different colour coding system
was used, wouldn't be an issue.

Just my 2c from a butthurt colourblind guy.

Dion


On 18 June 2014 11:34, Nelson Handcock <[email protected]> wrote:

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