Colour-blindness
 

Like Antonye, I am also colour blind.

Have just found out that my particular flavour is "strong deutan" (red-green).

The question is, according the the ACU registration form, "applicant must have normal colour vision in that they can distinguish the primary colours red and green".

Is there anywhere on the web that I can check to see the shades that the ACU uses? If they are bright red and green then I am okay, but if it is subtle, it might be a problem for me....

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

Mate, I hope this isn't a setback for you!!

I guess I'll find out in Rugby when they start waving the flags about.....

chi i think you will be ok.

i am red/green clour blind too and crapped myself when i read it!

but i spoke to them (ACU) and they said it would be ok. basically if you can tell a red flag from a green flag you will be ok. i cant make out jack on those little colour charts, but i dont spend all day at a green traffic light waiting for it to change!

Have u sat the eye test yet dickie..?

My mate is Totaly Colour blind

When he took his driving test

he only got through the traffic light test by remembering the sequence;)

god help him if the lights are ever knocked over:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

no, but my sight should be ok and as long as i can prove to them i can see red and green i will be ok. they normally have some circles on red and green backgrounds and say 'are they clearer on the red or the green'. i guess if you say "ok show me the other colour now"..............you fail! :lol::lol::lol:

Do they poke you in the eye regularly in Essex or something?

Do you have to be colour blind to live there?

No I think you mean culture blind................. :D

I'll get my coat............. :burn::burn:

i'm colour blind too but only to the extent that colours fade into each other when i see them at a distance (200 yds +)
i:e all flashing lights on the motorway look GREEN when mixed with the red tail/brake lights of vehicles in front= i could'nt tell you if it is a blue emergency services light or just a yellow beacon from a breakdown/recovery or motorway services truck!!!!!!!
also when looking in a heap of electrical wiring such as a computer loom dont ask me to point to the green wire!!! youll be waiting a very long time!!!!
TRAFFIC LIGHTS ARE ONLY A PROBLEM AT A DISTANCE WHEN ALL THREE LIGHTS ARE ON AT THE SAME TIME!!!
so there is my excuse at the starting grid especially if im near the back (i probably would be)
the upshot of it is when red,green and yellow are close together i cant tell the difference between the colours
was advised not to take up the profession of electrician-hgv driver or painter and decorator!!!!!!

No Tony, the geography is purely coincidental. It's more to do with ability to see colours being inversely proportional to wealth, wit, charm, looks and sexual prowess ;)

I'm colour blind too. Chicken I haven't seen the text but would presume it would be the standard colour dots with numbers? Ther wqs a post on thsi not so long ago.

You must have some weird traffic lights round your way :D

I've done my eyesight test and failed the colour-blindness part. I can never do the specular tests (spotty books) although on chatting to the optician she said that the books are very sensitive and will pick up very slight colour blindness.

It's very common for males to be colour blind - it's something to do with the hormones - and I'm sure we won't be the first lot that the ACU have had through the door!

The test will probably be no more than a "point at the green flag and not the red one" kind of thing at some later date.

It does have its good point though. If a women wears a certain colour, don't ask me what because I don't know what colour it is. It looks as if she has nothing on;)

i know its unlikely to happen but was trying to explain the difficulties i have with coloured lights at distance--------other than colour blindness i have perfect vision-never had to wear glasses or anything- well proof of that is that i hold three international titles for rifle shooting!!when i was in the TA i use to pop ballons at and over 600yds with a AI snipers rifle -- not blowin me own trumpet but trying to explain the frustration i feel at times---can you imagine officer saying "shoot the green light"- which green light sir?:mad: