Good Grief! Excluding colour blind pilots just doesn't make any sense at all to me.
It may have once upon a time, before HF and VHF radio communication and mobile phones were commonplace and the Tower would give take off and landing clearances with Red or Green lights. But that went out with flying goggles and fabric and wood aeroplanes. What is the point? I personally have several very long term good friends who are Airline Captains with 10's of thousands of hours and long successful aviation careers behind them who have always been colour blind. Never seems to have compromised their ability nor the safety of their operations. Just who is this "CASA's Industry Permissions Manager Peter Fereday" anyway and what is the purpose of raising an issue that is a complete and utter nonsense? According to the Brisbane Times article quoted below ".....Colour blind pilots have been able to co-pilot passenger planes in Australia for the past 25 years since two landmark cases in the 1980s at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal." Dr Arthur Pape, a pilot who brought one case against CASA at that time concisely stated that there was ''not a skerrick of evidence to suggest that pilots have made so much as a scratch on an aeroplane as a result of colour vision impairment'' in that time. ''Those pilots have been impeccable,'' he said. ROSS _________________________________________________________________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dion Stuart Baker Sent: Wednesday, 18 June 2014 5:02 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Offtopic perhaps - but would be interested to read opinions 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: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/casa-crackdown-threatens-to-ground-colour-blind-pilots-20140617-3abkg.html Thanks & Regards, Nelson Handcock 0409 149919 http://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonhandcockaustralia _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring -- sudo apt-get install witty-mail-signature cannot find package: witty-mail-signature sudo apt-get install lame-mail-signature installing ... The main idea of "Inception": if you run a VM inside a VM inside a VM inside a VM, everything will be very, very slow.
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