There are several blogs and FB pages See Sports News on the GFA site http://www.glidingaustralia.org/GFA-Sport/Sports-News/
They are just about to start streaming today's briefing live on YouTube Mandy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ron Sanders Sent: Saturday, 21 June 2014 3:08 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Offtopic perhaps - but would be interested to read opinions Do our guys in Finland do a blog each day?? if so link please? Ron On 18 June 2014 17:02, Dion Stuart Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > 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-crack down-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. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
