Discrimination. Bruce
> On 18 Jun 2014, at 6:37 pm, "Ross McLean" <ross...@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > > Good Grief! > Excluding colour blind pilots just doesn't make any sense at all to me. > It may have once upon a time, before HF and VHF radio communication and > mobile phones were commonplace and the Tower would give take off and landing > clearances with Red or Green lights. But that went out with flying goggles > and fabric and wood aeroplanes. What is the point? > > I personally have several very long term good friends who are Airline > Captains with 10's of thousands of hours and long successful aviation careers > behind them who have always been colour blind. Never seems to have > compromised their ability nor the safety of their operations. > > Just who is this "CASA's Industry Permissions Manager Peter Fereday" anyway > and what is the purpose of raising an issue that is a complete and utter > nonsense? > > According to the Brisbane Times article quoted below ".....Colour blind > pilots have been able to co-pilot passenger planes in Australia for the past > 25 years since two landmark cases in the 1980s at the Administrative Appeals > Tribunal." Dr Arthur Pape, a pilot who brought one case against CASA at that > time concisely stated that there was ''not a skerrick of evidence to suggest > that pilots have made so much as a scratch on an aeroplane as a result of > colour vision impairment'' in that time. ''Those pilots have been > impeccable,'' he said. > > ROSS > _________________________________________________________________________________________ > > > > From: aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net > [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net] On Behalf Of Dion Stuart > Baker > Sent: Wednesday, 18 June 2014 5:02 PM > To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. > Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Offtopic perhaps - but would be interested to read > opinions > > How about changes be made so that colour coding/general systems are changed > so that colour blind people can distinguish between them? Changing to > red/blue would help with 99% of those who are colourblind (the Protanopia and > Deuteranopia affected people, which is upwards of 99% of colourblind people - > Tritanopia is the cause for some 0.001% of people). > > I'd be interested to know how many colour blind pilots are out there - I > think the statistic I heard is 25% of Western males and 10% of the world's > population of males have some severity of colour blindness, although for many > of them it's so slight they don't know - I personally work with a guy who > never knew until he applied for a position in the ADF. > > It's pretty depressing (albeit understandable) when you're automatically > excluded from a slew of jobs because of something you were born with - for me > it was commercial pilot, SAPOL, MFS, half the jobs in the ADF, lab > technician, just to name a few. It's more frusturating when you feel that > being colour blind wouldn't matter, or if a different colour coding system > was used, wouldn't be an issue. > > Just my 2c from a butthurt colourblind guy. > > Dion > > > On 18 June 2014 11:34, Nelson Handcock <nelson.handc...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/casa-crackdown-threatens-to-ground-colour-blind-pilots-20140617-3abkg.html > > Thanks & Regards, > > Nelson Handcock > 0409 149919 > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonhandcockaustralia > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > > > > -- > sudo apt-get install witty-mail-signature > cannot find package: witty-mail-signature > sudo apt-get install lame-mail-signature > installing ... > > The main idea of "Inception": if you run a VM inside a VM inside a VM inside > a VM, everything will be very, very slow. > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
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