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Tehlawlrus
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Posted this earlier and it was locked, at first I was upset but then realized that I was also stupid and had not actually asked anything, just made a statement.
I found out I'm colour blind today and in one sadistic explosion of suck, my life long dream of being a helicopter pilot was reduced to ashes.
(Btw out of experience of posting this elsewhere, I am very aware of the little miss sunshine thing, and ironically enough said to my friend while watching the flick "Wow, that sucks for him. Good thing I'm not colour blind!")
The reason I'm posting this here is because I figure this forum has a huge pool of users, some of whom may be pilots, know pilots, be eye doctors, and could possibly help me out.
Does anyone know if there's a way around this? My own research so far has done nothing but to show me that there's really no corrective options, surgical or otherwise, and that my chances of becoming a pilot are slim to none.
Does anyone have any experiences with the industry that they could share regarding this? Any links to some sort of FAA loophole? Anything at all?
It's looking bleak right now, but I figure if anything can help, it's the power of the internets.
(Apologies for not asking a question in my first thread; I did mean to, I just completely spaced. Didn't mean to just come here and make a post just complaining)
I found out I'm colour blind today and in one sadistic explosion of suck, my life long dream of being a helicopter pilot was reduced to ashes.
(Btw out of experience of posting this elsewhere, I am very aware of the little miss sunshine thing, and ironically enough said to my friend while watching the flick "Wow, that sucks for him. Good thing I'm not colour blind!")
The reason I'm posting this here is because I figure this forum has a huge pool of users, some of whom may be pilots, know pilots, be eye doctors, and could possibly help me out.
Does anyone know if there's a way around this? My own research so far has done nothing but to show me that there's really no corrective options, surgical or otherwise, and that my chances of becoming a pilot are slim to none.
Does anyone have any experiences with the industry that they could share regarding this? Any links to some sort of FAA loophole? Anything at all?
It's looking bleak right now, but I figure if anything can help, it's the power of the internets.
(Apologies for not asking a question in my first thread; I did mean to, I just completely spaced. Didn't mean to just come here and make a post just complaining)
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My uncle is color blind and he wanted to be a pilot, so his dream got crushed too, so I feel for ya.
Note: If you're colour blind, you don't know it unless you get tested. Common sense of course, but it had never crossed my mind until I randomly took a test for fun.
For anyone that this might be important to, go here: http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.html
You still need to go to a professional to be certain of course, but my results online were the exact same as the professional test, so this is a decent resource to give you an idea at least.
I'm really curious about this. I suppose I take it for granted but how does this not come up naturally? Is it that you learn what those colors look like to you and then assume that's what they look like to everyone else?
Yeah, I'd have figured that looking at color wheels or something, or learning tools like red and green would tip people off.
You can know it without getting tested. I've never been formally tested, but it became very apparent when I was in first grade and the other kids made fun of how I'd color in things. Also there's the Ishiara tests you can take. I myself have Daltonism.
This is from wikipedia and I think it's a pretty good description of my experience:
At the very bottom, it says if you have normal vision you'll see a five, if you have red/green, you'll see a two.
Well, at first, I saw a two, and nothing but a two, very clearly defined.
But then I read the passage next to it, and only saw a defined five, and could not imagine where I saw the two
And the two tests at the bottom, the six and the eight, gave me trouble.
Am I reading too much into it?
I wanted to fly and broke my ankles, receiving metal pins in them. I might not be able to join the military, but there's other options.
position of the light, but wouldn't the top and bottom colors being similar tip you off?
What does everyone see in this picture?
Critical Failures - Havenhold Campaign • August St. Cloud (Human Ranger)
Probably not, because those are green and red to you. You can't see through someone else's eyes to know what they look like to people who aren't color blind.
I hope the correct answer to this question is a red and green circle slightly overlapping.
daaaaaaaamn dude...
Critical Failures - Havenhold Campaign • August St. Cloud (Human Ranger)
Should I be worried about that statement?
No, he's joking.
I saw the five plain clear as day but since I know a 2 is there I can spot it as well, it overlaps toward the middle of the five at the largest dot of the five. try that.
Whew! :winky:
That's made even funnier by the fact that I thought of saying I saw something totally random.
A grey 8 flipped to the side.... what am I supposed to see here?
Edit: O.K I was kidding, but the posts didn't have to stop. Sheesh.
Jeez, maybe Ex-Nazi is a bit hurried.
THIS guy. ;-)
Also the FAA makes you take a physical before you can fly privately and it has a color blind test.
You are screwed. Sorry
It is for the best though. All of your instruments are coded, green = good. Red = bad. If you cant distinguish between the two easily then it would be very difficult to casually scan your gauges and know that everything is all right.
As for the traffic light question: note that in the Ishihara page that was linked it says that we like bright colors which are more identifiable. This is absolutely true in the case of traffic lights. Those particular shades of red and of green used in traffic lights are very bright and quite distinct from each other, so it isn't a problem.
The difficulties for me (and I'm sure it varies to some degree) pop up when dealing with darker shades, really pale or pastel shades, or distance (that's a fun one; looks red from a hundred yards but oh hey! it's green up close). A friend of mine had a car that was dark green; for years I thought it was dark blue.
And see, right there, it's other colors besides just red and green. Some shades of green and grey get mixed up for me... blue and purple play hell with my eyes, and distinctions like violet, lavender, periwinkle and the like are just other words for purple to me. Tough stuff.
It's true. Women have much more color receptors than men. Which is why women have fancy names for colors and we just call it "light blue, dark blue, blue".
Also, the chance of being colorblind as a male is 1 in 11. For females, 1 in 300.
See:
Only women have the possibility of having 4 color ranges instead of 3
I know im beating a dead horse here but, if you watched that scene did you not notice you couldn't see the "A" inside the circle either?
Strangely I am not color blind according to the test but for the life of me I can't tell (easily or at all in low light) the difference between green and blue uno cards,
At the time I didn't really think anything of it, since it's just a movie... I thought maybe it was one of those props that had a lot less detail than is alluded to in the dialogue.
And Limp Moose, what can you tell me about the Farnsworth Lantern test? I heard that this is a possible acceptible alternative to the Ishihara plates, but if you're in the industry and have any insight, it would be great to hear more from you.