Re: Color Vision Letter of Evidence - Status
And not for nothing, of the 4 "groups" of color vision types (1 being normal) the FAA has... I strongly doubt being in group 2 or even a mild 3 affects safety at all. The NTSB probably skewed the color vision "related" accident reports under the direct influence of those with a strong opinion, or an agenda for "good" publicity (while still being completely baseless in the educated eye). Call me "anti-authority", or cynical, but I know what motivates people in public viewed positions, and it's almost never the logical or correct solution. Rather the one that looks better in newspapers to the average simple american. The one that would minimize criticism against them from the idiot masses. If you ever worked in IT, you know exactly the kind of politics I'm talking about here.
The FAA bases their flawed (and influenced) 'reasoning' of these new color vision standards on this specific accident:
"The incident that started this change was when a FedEx Boeing 727 crashed in 2002. The NTSB investigation determined that the first officer’s color vision deficiency was one of several causal factors. A result of that investigation was a change in the FAA procedures for removing the operational restrictions for color vision deficiency."
Funny because there is proof of the exact contrary. The FO's color vision deficiency had nothing to do with the accident, and that part of the report was phony at best. A rationalization on the parts of the closed minds writing this report. There was a flight engineer and a Captain on board looking at the same runway mind you. Why wouldn't one of the "normal" color vision pilots say "4 reds! Add power, pull up!". They were exhausted, not alert... that's why.
Fedex 1478
http://www.ntsb.gov/events/2004/FedE...erformance.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NtqXTt0DU4
Look at the report first, then the video. The Captain (with "normal" color vision) was clearly looking at the runway too based on the voice recording...
Thankfully they all survived by the way.
Totally agreed...Dude your thinking way too rationally. This is the FAA we're talking about afterall. Rational and common sense have no business in that place!
And not for nothing, of the 4 "groups" of color vision types (1 being normal) the FAA has... I strongly doubt being in group 2 or even a mild 3 affects safety at all. The NTSB probably skewed the color vision "related" accident reports under the direct influence of those with a strong opinion, or an agenda for "good" publicity (while still being completely baseless in the educated eye). Call me "anti-authority", or cynical, but I know what motivates people in public viewed positions, and it's almost never the logical or correct solution. Rather the one that looks better in newspapers to the average simple american. The one that would minimize criticism against them from the idiot masses. If you ever worked in IT, you know exactly the kind of politics I'm talking about here.
The FAA bases their flawed (and influenced) 'reasoning' of these new color vision standards on this specific accident:
"The incident that started this change was when a FedEx Boeing 727 crashed in 2002. The NTSB investigation determined that the first officer’s color vision deficiency was one of several causal factors. A result of that investigation was a change in the FAA procedures for removing the operational restrictions for color vision deficiency."
Funny because there is proof of the exact contrary. The FO's color vision deficiency had nothing to do with the accident, and that part of the report was phony at best. A rationalization on the parts of the closed minds writing this report. There was a flight engineer and a Captain on board looking at the same runway mind you. Why wouldn't one of the "normal" color vision pilots say "4 reds! Add power, pull up!". They were exhausted, not alert... that's why.
Fedex 1478
http://www.ntsb.gov/events/2004/FedE...erformance.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NtqXTt0DU4
Look at the report first, then the video. The Captain (with "normal" color vision) was clearly looking at the runway too based on the voice recording...
Thankfully they all survived by the way.