Re:SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster
by BurningFrog on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @10:50AM
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You can become color blind later though.
Re:SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster
by manarth on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @11:45AM
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Commercial pilots are generally required to take a regular medical (it's every 6 months or 12 months in the UK).
If a pilot were to acquire colour blindness, they'd be obliged to ground themselves and report the condition to the aviation authority.
Re:SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster
by dbarlett on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @12:26PM
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Or temporarily from medication, particularly those used to treat erectile dysfunction and benign prostatic hyperplasia [1][2].
[1] https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/av...
Re:SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster
by URSpider94 on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @02:43AM
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... and as a professional pilot, you'd probably have to consult a flight physician if you were taking meds like these.
However, I remember him trying for some time and even campaigning for colourblind people to be admissible as commercial pilots because for the actual flying colourblindness doesn't seem to matter.
So, perhaps ridiculous as it may sound taking colourblindness into account when proposing such an improvement isn't such a weird idea after all.