Where to start? Colour Blind Pilot - 2009/10/22 12:29
Hi All,
First post.
A little about me. Since I can remember I have wanted to be an airline pilot. When I was 4 and enrolling to go to primary school back in the UK I had to go through some medical examinations. One such test was for colour blindness which I failed. The nurse at the time advised me I would never be an airline pilot. I remember that day very well and has been with me every bleeding day since. All I ever wanted to be was a pilot.
22 years on I am about to get given my 1st class medical with restrictions. I am yet to find out what these restrictions are but from what I have read on the net it most likely will restrict me from flying at night.
I have taken a different tacked to most by obtaining my medical before I start to invest LARGE sums of money in flying.
I have several questions that need answering, I have been asking alot of questions over the past 22 years and get mixed replies.
1st. Am I likely to obtain a job with a major airline if I am only able to fly during daylight hours?
2nd. Maybe this one should have been the first. Am I able to obtain my ATPL when colour blind restrictions are placed on my medical?
3rd. How do I go about my flying?
This is how I intend to do it. Two hours flying a week, im in no hurry & will most likely take about three years to obtain my CPL.
4th. What are the theory tests like and where do you sit these?
5th. Any other advise?
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biggles7374
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Re:Where to start? Colour Blind Pilot - 2009/10/25 17:42
Hi Dashley
Where in the world are you, UK or Australia?
Biggles
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Dashley
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Re:Where to start? Colour Blind Pilot - 2009/10/26 16:28
Melbourne, Vicotria, Australia.
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biggles7374
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Re:Where to start? Colour Blind Pilot - 2009/10/30 17:35Dashley wrote: Melbourne, Vicotria, Australia.
That is good!!! In the UK they are particularly strict about colour vision and being colour unsafe will, under the JAR rules prevent you from getting a Commercial Licence at all and will not allow night flying.
In Australia they are a little more relaxed thanks to the efforts of Dr Arthur Pape who challenged CASA in the Administrative Tribunals as to the relevance on colour vision in aviation.
The upshot is this:
A restricted class 1 medical will prevent you from flying RPT which means you will never get a job with the airlines or doing RPT work for a smaller charter company.
It will not however prevent you from getting a Commercial Licence or flying at night, and when you have the pre-requisite experience applying for an ATPL licence. The ATPL will be no good to you though because you are restricted from RPT operations which is the whole point of the ATPL, to allow command of multi crew aircraft on RPT operations.
Make sure you have exhausted all avenues with regard to the restriction. Have you done the practical Tower Light Signal Test and the Farnsworth Lantern Test? If you have not you should enquire about them because passing either one will give you an unrestricted class 1.
Resolve the situation soon because in the future there may be changes because the Brits are trying through ICAO to impose their much stricter standards on the rest of the world, although they have recently introduced the CAD test which supposedly is meant to relax their standard. Whether it does or not is yet to be seen!!
Good Luck
Biggles
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Dashley
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Re:Where to start? Colour Blind Pilot - 2009/11/01 20:05
I have done the Farnsworth test, failed that with flying colours (pardon the pun). However if I did this again I would pass easily. The first round I got 100% but the 2nd round I was lucky to get 20% 3rd round I did well. I think I just over thought this process thinking there was a catch. But there wasn't.
Look, at the moment I just want to know if I can fly. Once I know I can I will take it further. My DAME is Dr John Parks, who is one of the best colour vision Dr in Melbourne.
I should have my medical in a week or two, just had to do a drug urine test last week and a few peices of paper needed to be completed.
Fingers crossed.
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aeronut
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Re:Where to start? Colour Blind Pilot - 2010/04/20 14:40
Dashley, How did you go wrt colour vision status? aeronut
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