Hi Alan,
Thanks for your thoughts. I have only just found out my little boy is
slightly colour blind.
As with you he has trouble distinguishing red/green.
Interesting there is no family history on either side. Certainly I am not
colour blind,
neither was my father or his father.
I was very disap
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 incandesce
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
dea
You might also like to try XCSoar (http://xcsoar.sourceforge.net).
Excellent features, very powerful, user customisable, free (open
source).
It is actively developed and supported by several people in Australia,
UK, Switzerland, Germany and the US.
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Controversial topic follows...
Beverley Soaring Society Sunday 27th Nov 2005.
Thunderstorms went through overnight. Greeted with a strong easterly, used RWY
08. Wind dropped off. Lift to 4,000' initially.
Moved to RWY 34. Day improving. Lift to at least 6,000', strong sink around too.
Daryl Mc
>-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
Back in the 1950s, when I first learned to fly, red/green colour blindedness
was of fundamental importance as ATC was communicated by the tower pointing
a red (refusal), or green (approved) light at you.
I think it then took a few decades for CASA to realise the earlier criteria
might have les
It’s all very well to want a commercial
operation to fit in with the time pressures you have Mark, but how much would
you be willing to pay for that convenience?
Even a bare-bones operation would require
a tug (and tuggie) and glider(and instructor(s)): What would it cost pay for all
th
I will pass an interesting story about those who judge color blindness.
Some years ago, whilst going for a medical examination for a racing
licence (water-skiing), I was hand-balled to the "intern" at my local
GP's for a medical. I had known the GP for many years and he was
confident I would pa
mark king wrote:
What I am suggesting is that the GFA consider investigating the feasibility
of establishing a “Sports Aviation Centre” near a capital city like Sydney.
This centre could be multi use eg ultralights and gliders/self launchers.
Funded and owned by private investors and perhaps par
mark king wrote:
I feel I have to add my views on the comments flying around about colour
vision and flying.
CASA as it now is, years ago lost the fight to stop pilots with so
called colour perception issues from flying at night thanks to the court
action taken by Dr Pape. See www.aopa.com
Allan
thanks for you interesting explanation as to how
the 'other half' live and cope with this problem
Milton Holmes
- Original Message -
From:
Allan
Armistead
To: Discussion of issues relating
to Soaring in Australia.
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 6:12
The future of gliding
On this forum someone recently lamented there were no controversial
posts. Perhaps I can help here.
I learnt to fly gliders many years ago through the club system and at the
same time obtained a PPL, flew tugs and generally enjoyed both types of
flying for a number of ye
You could include GPS_LOG on you list. It is a free download and has many
of the features of the others. But it is NOT IGC approved.
I am using it in the club scene, because I am sick of changing gliders, 1
fitted with B50, another with GPSNAV, and the other a Garmin 12. GPS NAV is
just not
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