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Well people finally somebody who said it all!
It is so Fuc..ng frustrating that they dont WANT to understand your point.
We know exactley what we see! I am from holland and the optometrist said the same things to me. You pay a lot of money to do that test and the dont give you the results! The say o too many errors, Goodbye. Find something else!
And you can explain all the evidence you've got! but that doesnt do !!!!! Sorry rules they say!
Well who made that rules so we can give them the evidence!
The only way to wake them up is to let them see that we can be safe pilots too!
But HOW DO WE DO THAT.
You can say to them: we never had an accident due to colour weakness, but that is not enough.
If that worked we would be in the air right now.
I think the only thing to do is to wait for a new test or a medical solution. The 1st thing is possible the 2nd thing is nearly ompossible in the near future. You can find everything on the internet these days but not a cure for colour weakness.
We all must bomb the JAA FAA CASA and all the other aviation administration with letters that contains evidence!
If one person does that they will throw that letter into the dustbin but if we all do that maybe they will take the time to a letter and to investigate it!
But why should they?
1. they earn enough money to people like us because we try several tests.
2. there are too many pilots than jobs so give them one good reason??
3. investigation costs money.
4. To become a pilot is a dream!! We worked our whole life for it. optometrists can not understand how important it is to us.
In the past it was prohibited to fly with glasses and now you can fly a Jet if you are almost blind!!
If people may fly with glasses why cant we??
With a little bit of improvement to the special glasses(for colourvision) we can deal with our ''problem'' just like people with a bad vision range.
If they are safe so can we! And I believe we dont need those glasses because we know what we see. When I drive to my work I can see Schiphol(EHAM) a kilometer away from me and I can indentify the tower, runway aircraft lights without problems.
They judge you to compare you with colour normals but that is not the right method to judge this!
If they test you the first coloured dots are easy(the way you can see the lights from the aircraft). At the end of the test the intensivity of the light changes and from a few feet away it can be difficult to separate them. If the red dot is almost yellow and the green is almost yellow/green colour normals are able to separate them without big trouble.
For us it can be more difficult but in a real flight you do not need to separate lights with a wavelength so close to each other.!!
It is RED or GREEN and not yellowgreen--yellowred!!
Not one of us has got problems with traffic lights! why dont we need to do a colourvision test for a driving lisence??? You have got the responsibility of other people in traffic! I think the reason is because the red wavelength is totally different than the green wavelength so easy to separate for everybody.
I understand that a bit of colourvision is important and that is why they need to investigate this with colournormals and colour defectives in a real airplane!
Let them both do a few tests and compare the parts where colourvision is important! I want to bet that the results are equal!
Dont ask a pilot: well what colour is that little sentence in the CRT He can read and that is not relevant!!! LET the pilot deal with the situation and look how he is handling the test!
And than you can do your judgement.
Maybe if a pilot is really colourblind it can give problems but the test requirements are way to high now.
If a pilot can separate the VASI/PAPI from a certain distance it must be acceptable!
I am trying to earn my medical 1 for 2 years now and I cant find a
A way to succeed. Maybe England is an option.
I am tired and a little bit irritaded right now so I stop now.
Suggestions are always available and lets support eachother!
Good luckt to all
CDV pilots
greetz KRIZZI