Hi all!! This is my first post, so I hope to write an interesting issue here (I am going to share my story, which might also help others).
I am 37 years old. I have an FAA CPL/IR/ME and more than 750 hours (500 hours flying F27 in South America). I decided to stop flying around 10 years ago because my family had to come back to europe from S.A. Staying there alone (third world country) for a lifetime was nonsense and dangerous (in europe I am not able to fly as I will explain later and I have no green card for USA). Tough life decisions!!
I am a mild color vision defficient (deuteroanomaly), I had no problem with the FAA back into 1990 when I first started flying (passed Farnsworth lantern as stated by the FAA, no restrictions). The thing is that when I finished my FAA CPL I came back to my country (now one of europe) and did not pass my initial because I do not pass the Beyne´s Lantern color vision test.
.. That is when I decided to go to South America with my parents (which were living there at that moment) and ended up flying F27, but I was already shot allmost to death in europe (not yet JAR-FCL).
Well, after 10 years and now with JAR-FCL into effect I have decided to fight back. Right now I am trying to get my medical in other european country, trying to pass the initial medical with other approved lantern.
If you pass the medical in one JAA state, will it be valid and accepted by others JAA members? even when denied by one JAA state?
The reason for my post is to search for good advice, for help, and to advice others with these color vision defficiecy stuff.
Be careful with the medicals from other countries, they are not standard and what might be good for one may not be good for the other.
Colour standards are b......t, I have been in the cockpit with friends that are flying A320 glass cockpit, looking at the VASI, tower lights, etc.. and I have no problem with that.. What they say about it? Laughs!!
I recognize that I have deuteroanomaly, but we, "mild color vision defficients" are not blind people and we do not see in black and white.
Doe´s anybody knows any similar cases?
Am I too old to fight back?
Any good suggestions?
Any european country easy on color vision tests?
Sorry for my english and for the long story but I still have hopes and want to give it a try (I am not totaly happy with my actual job), some things are not fair and this is one of them. I want to fly!!
Thanks..
