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Old 18th Dec 2008, 21:26
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Anybody requiring driving on an airfield must be CP3 minimum (requires a "lantern test" at the Med Centre) or CP2 SAFE.

The reasons being, the traffic lights on the airfield are low level lights (red & green side-by-side), and the fact that ATC or Runway Caravan can transmit 1 light at you.
If you can't tell red/green/white apart, you would be a danger on the airfield as you could enter an active runway!!

Within the last 2 weeks, I have personally refused an airfield user permit F600A to a contractor who was as colour-blind as a bat (at his own admission and confirmed by an Ishihara Test (coloured numbers and dots and lines))

All TG9 are required to be CP2 SAFE and I believe all Flt Ops Branch should also be CP2 as they have a remit to be Incident Commander/SLOps/Wg Cdr Ops as part of their career progression.
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