I respect you!
Throwing in my two cents. Setting aside the color issue for just a minute. The reliance upon any one visual cue at the expense of others is like flying on just one instrument. The proper teaching of visual cues and the deceptions that they can create, i.e. wide verses narrow runways, approach lighting etc. should be taught early and thought about in every approach briefing. The first time I landed at night in the weather on a runway with embeded centerline lights I had not properly prepared. I was in the back seat of a T-38 and as we broke out of the clouds thought we were descending into the approach lights and told my student to go around. Ever since I have paid close attention not only to lighting but VASI approach angle and how far down the runway following these approach aids will actually cause me to land. Some pilots never land on a runway without VASI and it is a shame. The Navy never uses landing lights yet some would almost say that this is an emergency. Experience is not just accrued it is also earned by planning and trying new techniques.
Bob,
Wise comments and advice from a wise man!
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Not strictly true. Women are MUCH less likely to inherit red-green color-deficiency since it is a sex-linked trait (they have to be homozygous recessive, men only have one X, so they only need one copy of the abnormal gene, its not on theY), but women are equally likely to inherit yellow-blue color-deficiency and true colorblindness (monochromasty) as those are autosomal traits.
Very well said, but I was not aware that only the Red/Green variety was sex linked (homozygous recessiveon the X chromosome). It is interesting as my maternal grandfather was color blind as am I and I have been diagnosed as totally color blind, but not 100% so.