VISION THREAD (other than colour vision)

[east_sider]

Shunter

Hi Jon

I volunteered to take part in the City Uni trials, as have a few people that posted on this thread. My personal impression from talking to the lady that tested me is that the trial will take approximately 1-2 years to complete, not for the fieldwork but also to analyse the results, draw conclusions and make recommendations. Then there will likely be another period of delay while the CAA consider the recommendations and eventually implement some changes. So I got the strong impression that there would be no change to the current class 1 medical colour test for the medium term. By medium I mean certainly more than 1 year but hopefully not 3 years!

There is also a link somewhere higher up on this thread to a Flight International article speculating on when the new test would be introduced, can't remember but they thought several years away I think.

If I were you I would try to get yourself on the City Uni trial, and/or go for their standard colour vision assesment (which you have to pay £125 for). Depending on how old you are you most likely don't want to be waiting around for years for the CAA to change the class 1 test. PM me if you want contact details for the City Uni person running the trials.

Having taken the PAPI test myself I'm of the opinion I couldn't pass it when introduced by CAA. My CVD diagnosis is "Moderate Protanomaly"

Shunter (see post above) was diagnosed as "Very mild dueteronomy" and he could pass the PAPI test, so if you go to City Uni for a full diagnosis now you should have a good idea if you could pass it in the future.

cheers