Queensland pilot challenges CASA over colour blindness restrictions

The Colour Vision Defective Pilots Association (www.cvdpa.com) is making its case in Austrualian court. The issue of color vision has affected many would be, and current pilots all over the world, and the topic is now in the national news in Australia. In Australia, hundreds of color vision deficient pilots who would fail to meet the color vision standards in most other parts of the world (yet fly the worlds most advanced jetliners to and within those countries on a daily basis) have made it to… (www.abc.net.au) More...

"How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malaysia Airlines plane is?*"

In the year since the vanishing of MH370, I appeared on CNN more than 50 times, watched my spouse’s eyes glaze over at dinner, and fell in with a group of borderline-obsessive amateur aviation sleuths. A million theories bloomed, including my own. - By Jeff Wise (nymag.com) More...

Queensland pilot wins right to captain airliner despite poor colour vision

Under Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) regulations, pilots with colour vision deficiency have not been permitted to hold an open air transport pilot's licence, necessary to captain large jets. Depending on the range of their visual deficiency, pilots like John O'Brien usually reach the peak of their career as a first officer. But in 2012, Mr O'Brien launched an appeal against that decision with the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in Brisbane. (www.abc.net.au) More...