G'day all colour defective pilots,
I'm an Australian colour defective pilot. I havea little over 1000hours. I failed the Oz farnsworth lantern but passed the practical test ie at the airport. I've just been over the europeto try for a class 1, went to see Dr Kopp in Switzerland (He's the senior JAR eye expert), he prodeuced a lantern called the spectrolux lantern. It's not too bad. It consists of red, green and white lights in 2 different brightnesses. He shows you 24 combinations, 1 error and you fail. It seemed to me though that the colour is very similiar to that used at airports, ie no pale shades to try to fail those with a colour defiency. This spectrolux is vailid for all JAR medicals even though not every testing centre has one. If you pass this one, you can get a report and showit to any DAME etc.
Good luck to every one.