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Subject: Re: Color Blindness ?? Will it keep me out of GA
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In article <6v0mmk$hhl$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, jgalban@hotmail.com says...
>
>In article <36127ba2.0@news.netwalk.com>,
>  jbolinger@lintek.com (J L Bolinger) wrote:
>> In article <6utpeh$71n@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>, dcoll@ix.netcom.com 
says...
>> >
>> >Hello all --
>> >
>> >Decided I would like to pursue a PPL.  I am slightly
>> >red/green colorblind.  When I say slight I can see the
>> >colors -- even when they are together --  I have difficulty
>> >with shades.
>> >
>> >Generally only has an effect on matching clothes.
>> >I would like to know if this will stop me from gaining
>> >a medical.
>
>  It won't keep you from getting a medical, but it will certainly keep you off
>the cover of GQ ;-))
>
>  Get your medical.  If you don't pass the "dot" test, you can arrange to
>take a practical test and get a Statement of Demonstrated Ability (SODA). 
>You'll still get a medical, but with some restrictions (see below) until
>you've obtained the SODA.
>
><snip>
>
>>
>> Well!!
>>
>> I was about to post a messge on the same topic.
>>
>> I, too, have red/green color blindness, and wanted to see what other
>> student pilots have the same problem.
>>
>> To answer your question, I passed the medical with no problem.  The
>> worst thing that could happen is that you be restricted to daytime only
>> and non-controlled fields (no tower, so no colored signal lights to
>> get confused.)  Second worst thing is that you have to demonstrate that
>> you can distinguish the colored lights.
>

[The above was mine by the way]


>  Pretty close, but not quite.  The restriction is daytime only, plus you
>cannot accept lightgun signals from a tower (in lieu of a radio).  You can
>fly in and out of controlled fields all you want as long as you have a
>working radio.
>
><snip>
>
>
>> Anyone else out there have problems with the 'sort of washed out pastel
>> pink' lights?
>>
>
>  I have a red/green deficiency (and a SODA to go with it!), and the green and
>white lights look very similar to me, except that the white seems to have a
>yellowish tinge.


As i sayed above, the only difference I see between green and white is that
the green has a slight pinkish tint.  By the way, some traffic lights are
like this and some aren't.


>
>John Galban=====>N4BQ (PA28-180)
>
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I flunked the colored dot test, and then they pulled out some embrodery
floss.  They passed me with no restrictions.

It depends on _you_  there are different degrees of color blindness.  What
you should do is go and find out.

[Interesting...but my color problem also has to do with how bright the
lights are...change the brightness and the colors seem to shift]

