I had the most bizarre medical ever! I had always had a fraction of colour blindness which was deemed as not a problem and happily sailed through my Medicals for years!
Colour blindness as far as I know does not get worse or better!
I trundled off for another test and the AME determined that I needed the lowest strength reading glasses!
He refused my medical till I had the glasses so I drove the fifty miles back home and rushed a new set of glasses through!
Problem is I don't like wearing glasses and asked for a tint so they looked more like sunglasses!
Fifty miles back with my tinted glasses and the AME insisted I did the full spectrum if tests wearing the new glasses!
Vision fine until he wated a colour test !
I could not read a thing in the numbers book and was perplexed as was he! I would also need to take the other test!
Then it hit me ! Get the best colour vision pilot in the world give him
Tinted glasses and he will fail the colour test!
Look at blue say through yellow and you will see green etc!
He insisted I go and buy another very expensive pair of glasses which were clear and redo the tests yet again!
I was livid and moaned that did they ban pilots using sunglasses as they would all effectively turn colour blind!
I never used him again after that very expensive medical
Yes I also had the ishicara test as a precaution
Last edited by Pace; 12th Apr 2013 at 20:36.